Pacman Problem... HELP

javierg · 2007-06-22 15:35:28

well my english it's bad because i'm latin, but i gonna do my best...

i did instalation of archlinux for first time on my laptop computer... I did instalation of xfce4 and xorg for the X, but some problem don't let me start X from a user, but i can start X from root...

I was reading that problem it's caused by the permisions gives by pacman 3.0.5-1 to the packages. I want to change it to the 3.0.5-2 version, but i dont now how...

can you can help me please??

Last edited by javierg (2007-06-22 15:38:38)

slackhack · 2007-06-22 15:53:34

pacman -Sy pacman

then reinstall any packages you installed with 3.0.5-1, which you can find listed in /var/log/pacman.log

javierg · 2007-06-22 16:58:36

the error persist..

i did that... but whit pacman -V the version name is : Pacman v3.0.5 - libalpm v1.0.0

i try to re install the packages for X, but the system fall... it's the same than before, and its this:

/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: line 77: 4620 Aborted $xfcesm

waiting for Xserver to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE "usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.

i think the problem it's this... check out...

slackhack · 2007-06-22 17:23:13

do you maybe still have 3.0.5-1? what version does pacman -Q pacman say?

javierg · 2007-06-22 17:42:53

ok, pacman version is 3.0.5-2, but the problem persist... when i try to execute the command starxfce4 whit the normal user the system fall... i dont now what it's the problem... maybe i need reinstall arch?, je je, i'm newbie!!...

slackhack · 2007-06-22 18:17:55

it does seem like a permissions problem related to that pacman bug. you could reinstall, but just make sure the first thing you did was upgrade to the latest pacman before installing anything else.

or, you could first try upgrading everything in /var/log/pacman.log that comes after 3.0.5-1 with your current pacman. it seems like maybe you missed xfce4 or some other package after upgrading to the new pacman. also check the permissions of /tmp, i think that used to be wrong on new installs, unless that bug is fixed by now. ls -l / |grep tmp should show 777 permissions, like this:

drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 4096 2007-06-22 14:01 tmp/

if it shows anything else, as root do:

chown root:root /tmp && chmod 777 /tmp

Last edited by slackhack (2007-06-22 18:23:09)

shining · 2007-06-23 10:52:33

slackhack wrote:

it does seem like a permissions problem related to that pacman bug. you could reinstall, but just make sure the first thing you did was upgrade to the latest pacman before installing anything else.
or, you could first try upgrading everything in /var/log/pacman.log that comes after 3.0.5-1 with your current pacman. it seems like maybe you missed xfce4 or some other package after upgrading to the new pacman. also check the permissions of /tmp, i think that used to be wrong on new installs, unless that bug is fixed by now. ls -l / |grep tmp should show 777 permissions, like this:
drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 4096 2007-06-22 14:01 tmp/
if it shows anything else, as root do:
chown root:root /tmp && chmod 777 /tmp

Actually, it's the hackish fix for this problem which caused the permission bug in 3.0.5-1
3.0.5-2 reverted it and was built against a newer libarchive, but this now causes new problems : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7484

.:B:. · 2007-07-16 21:26:46

This problem has now borked two of my boxes - my desktop, and my mom's box. Actually, my mom's box is quite fubar now. Even my SSH logins are not accepted anymore...

And XFCE errors out happily all the same, just like the topic starter described. As root it works fine. Anyone got a clue?

shining · 2007-07-16 21:34:30

javierg wrote:

the error persist..
i did that... but whit pacman -V the version name is : Pacman v3.0.5 - libalpm v1.0.0
i try to re install the packages for X, but the system fall... it's the same than before, and its this:
/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: line 77: 4620 Aborted $xfcesm
waiting for Xserver to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE "usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.
i think the problem it's this... check out...

Oh, I missed that last link.
So is this the problem or not?
It's not like it's hard to fix, just check the permission on /usr/bin/Xorg ,
and fix them manually if they are wrong, or just reinstall xorg-server .

And also check permissions on /tmp/

.:B:. · 2007-07-16 22:09:19

Permissions on Xorg are as follows:

[stijn@hephaistos ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/Xorg 
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 1615268 apr  8 14:55 /usr/bin/Xorg

This goes for the one on my laptop (which is fully functional), and the one on my desktop (where XFCE borks with the above error about xfcesm in xinitrc).

shining · 2007-07-16 23:34:24

B wrote:

Permissions on Xorg are as follows:
[stijn@hephaistos ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/Xorg 
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 1615268 apr  8 14:55 /usr/bin/Xorg
This goes for the one on my laptop (which is fully functional), and the one on my desktop (where XFCE borks with the above error about xfcesm in xinitrc).

Then just report a bug and hope someone will find out what that is.

.:B:. · 2007-07-17 12:28:20

Will do. Thanks for the help.

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Pacman Problem... HELP

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