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Gruntz

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From: Haskovo, Bulgaria

Registered: 2007-08-31

Posts: 291

awesome3, unable to start.

Hi.

I just installed awesome3, as it is in the wiki, but when I try to 'startx', there is the following error:

awesome: symbol lookup error: awesome: undefined symbol sn_xcb_display_new.

I saw a topic about that in the bugs report, but I did not find how to solve the problem.
Can someone help me.

Regards.

Lexion

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Registered: 2008-03-23

Posts: 510

Re: awesome3, unable to start.

Can I see your xinitrc?  Cause it seems that awesome can't open the screen.

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Gruntz

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From: Haskovo, Bulgaria

Registered: 2007-08-31

Posts: 291

Re: awesome3, unable to start.

Here it is. I am using fluxbox from many years now, and I have it in the xinitrc. I am commenting and uncommenting awesome or fluxbox to switch them.

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# Start window manager
##

#exec startfluxbox
exec awesome

Lexion

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Registered: 2008-03-23

Posts: 510

Re: awesome3, unable to start.

I'm stumped.  Sorry, but I've just run out of ideas.

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MazurMe

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From: London

Registered: 2009-02-22

Posts: 72

Re: awesome3, unable to start.

What about 'pacman -Rd awesome && pacman -Scc' and then 'pacman -S awesome'?

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Gruntz

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From: Haskovo, Bulgaria

Registered: 2007-08-31

Posts: 291

Re: awesome3, unable to start.

What is the difference between:

pacman -S awesome

and adding that repository:

[awesome]
Server = http://www.camazotz.de/awesome/

and doing:

pacman -S awesome3 wicked-awesome3

I did the second one, because I wanted to install wicked.

I followed the wiki.

Shoud I install awesome only, or I can install wesome3 only. Both packages are in conflict.

I am asking because MazurMe wrote 'pacman -S awesome', and I used 'pacman -S awesome3 wicked-awesome3'. Maybe here is the problem?

damoppi

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-02-10

Posts: 18

Re: awesome3, unable to start.

Are you running a 64bit System? Because I think that the packages from http://www.camazotz.de/awesome/ are 32bit only. Maybe thats the problem? Just an idea...

Gruntz

Member

From: Haskovo, Bulgaria

Registered: 2007-08-31

Posts: 291

Re: awesome3, unable to start.

No, my system is 32 bit

I think that I will wait for the next version

cwjiof

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From: Taichung, TW

Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 131

Re: awesome3, unable to start.

Just pacman -S awesome.

If you want wicked, install it from AUR:
yaourt -S wicked-git

Gruntz

Member

From: Haskovo, Bulgaria

Registered: 2007-08-31

Posts: 291

Re: awesome3, unable to start.

I tryed 'pacman -S awesome', tryed 'pacman -Rd awesome && pacman -Scc' and then 'pacman -S awesome' but still no luck

I did not tryed to compile it from source. I may try that.

Thank you all for your help.