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Hello,
i just did a fresh Install of Arch and also installed the xorg Package plus the fitting driver for my GFX card.
did the usual stuff, configured x11 and now when i try to run x, following error pops up:
xterm: error while loading shared libraries: libXaw.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or direcotry
libXaw is installed, also 100% sure the right drivers for my card are installed (nvidia for a GF8400M)
Any help on this?
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I have the same problem using nvidia GeForce2 card. Doing some research, it appears the libxaw package is broke.
Not sure where to go at this point...
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/usr/lib/libXaw.so.8 is owned by libxaw 1.0.4-1
Run a pacman -Syu to make sure your system is up to date.
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System is up to date...
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My libxaw is 1.0.5-1
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Just rebuild the package through ABS. That sould solve the problem
Last edited by Manifest0 (2008-11-08 12:59:06)
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I've just had this problem too.
I solved it by downgrading to libxaw-1.0.4-1.pkg.tar.gz
I checked out /var/cache/pacman/pkg and found a previous version to be there.
Try downgrading with pacman. does it work?
Also, I found this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Downgrade_packages
Maybe it will help you.
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Did the downgrade via the ArchWiki and I'm good to go.
Played with ABS a little this morning but not up to speed with it yet.
Thanks everybody for the help, gosh this is a lot of fun...:lol:
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I'm glad I could help, and that it worked out okay.
Last edited by LatentJaM (2008-11-08 13:35:52)
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Hi! I fixed this issue by enterin the following as root:
ln -s /usr/lib/libXaw.so /usr/lib/libXaw.so.8
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Hi! I fixed this issue by enterin the following as root:
ln -s /usr/lib/libXaw.so /usr/lib/libXaw.so.8
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You can also fix this by rebuilding the application that links against libxaw.so.8. (i.e. just rebuild xterm in abs)
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This issue was fixed today with the new update for xterm in Extra.
At least for me it was... i removed the symlink i mentioned earlier...
but i dont see myself as a bad person for using a quick temporary fix like that...
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the problem is (a) linking to a different file than intended may or may work, with or without side effects, and (b) if you make it a habit, after a while you WILL have a system littered with "quick temporary fixes".
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The bug in http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12036 seems to be closed, however (at least on my machine): xfd and xfontsel are still "broken".
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The bug in http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12036 seems to be closed, however (at least on my machine): xfd and xfontsel are still "broken".
Should be fixed now with xorg-utils 7.4-2
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ddd is also broken. Same reason. I requested a re-open.
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i had the same issue; after conky crashed X on me i was getting the above error whenever i tried to start xterm. i reinstalled libxaw, xorg, xterm, all to no avail; finally, desperately i tried:
sudo cp libXaw.so.7 libXaw.so.8
and that fixed it; i know, terrible right? i haven't noticed any negative side effects yet (it's been two weeks or so); i can simply remove libXaw.so.8 to reverse what i did (and re-break xterm), but what's the actual way to fix this?
//github/
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but what's the actual way to fix this?
If all your packages are up to date, and you restart xorg, then all should be fine. If that doesn't help, maybe your mirror is very laggy.
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1) Removing it won't break xterm as xterm's been fixed.
2) Probably rebuild the apps to fix the broken dependencies / upgrade libXaw. Since there is no upgrade for libXaw in the pipe that I can see, the broken apps needs recompiled to access the version 7 shared libraries. I was wondering why this happened in the first instance. Did someone push a build from a test machine?
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brisbin33 wrote:but what's the actual way to fix this?
If all your packages are up to date, and you restart xorg, then all should be fine. If that doesn't help, maybe your mirror is very laggy.
thanks. when i get home tonight ill rm libXaw.so.8, upgrade everything, then restart
we'll see what happens...
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when i get home tonight ill rm libXaw.so.8, upgrade everything, then restart
we'll see what happens...
FYI: removed so.8 reinstalled/upgraded/reboot... xterm opens fine
so far so good. thanks for the help
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ddd is now fixed
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