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bountykiller

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Registered: 2006-08-07

Posts: 19

Login problems after upgrade

Hi all,

well my prolem is the following:
I recently upgrade my system. But, since, I'm unable to login correctly using slim. All I have is a "login command fails" message.
This problem happens when I try to log as a normal user but also as root.

Also, I'm unable to log on from the shell into X as a normal user. Its works when I'm root.

I've looked at the log files, but there is nothing special here.
Same is also true for the config files.

Anyone who had this before?

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 792

Re: Login problems after upgrade

You probably have files in /etc named <somename>.pacnew.  If you have made *NO* changes to a file, it is safe to rename <somename>.pacnew to <somename>.  Otherwise, copy any additions/changes you made to the .pacnew file before renaming it.

Do a
ls /etc/*pac*

broch

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From: L.A. California

Registered: 2006-11-13

Posts: 975

Re: Login problems after upgrade

if you have nvidia ( not sure  about ATI) and recently updated mesa, you will need to re-install nvidia drivers. Mesa installs some libs over nvidia files with the same name which causes issues with X login

Last edited by broch (2008-04-25 02:31:31)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,066

Re: Login problems after upgrade

Mesa installs some libs over nvidia files

I don't see any. And pacman would moan if it did.

In /var/abs/testing/mesa/PKGBUILD for mesa 7.0.3rc3

rm -f ${startdir}/pkg/usr/lib/libGL.so*

That removes the potential conflict.

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bountykiller

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Registered: 2006-08-07

Posts: 19

Re: Login problems after upgrade

Well, I've looked at my config files, and upgrade some with the .pacnew ones, but it changes nothing.
So I had a deeper look, and found that I had errors like "xfce4-panel : no such process" ...
After some test, I think it seems it is related to the current path. for example, running `xinit xfce4-session` from a console doesn't work.
But running `xinit /usr/bin/xfce4-session` does work.
Note that it can explain why slim wasn't able to run the login command (I assume this is because he don't found the command in his current path).

Now the question is: How can I fix this?

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,066

Re: Login problems after upgrade

What does this show:  echo $PATH

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bountykiller

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Registered: 2006-08-07

Posts: 19

Re: Login problems after upgrade

as a normal user:

:/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:.

broch

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From: L.A. California

Registered: 2006-11-13

Posts: 975

Re: Login problems after upgrade

Mesa installs some libs over nvidia files

I don't see any. And pacman would moan if it did.

In /var/abs/testing/mesa/PKGBUILD for mesa 7.0.3rc3

rm -f ${startdir}/pkg/usr/lib/libGL.so*

That removes the potential conflict.

it does not matter what you see, it is what you get. installing mesa over nvidia from repos always causes this problem (I don't use pacman for nvidia installation as pacman is unable to install nvidia for several kernels).
Now this is one possibility, not necessary what happened with the upgrade.

bountykiller

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Registered: 2006-08-07

Posts: 19

Re: Login problems after upgrade

Just For the info: I've just reinstalled my system (due to another problem), and I still can't get logged using slim. I still have the "login command failed" error message.
I assume i can fill a bug for that.