Can t run xfce after deleting glamor-egl

fasturtle · 2014-07-30 00:06:38

hi ,

i do an upgrade , pacman asked me if i wanted to delete glamor-egl , i say yes , the upgrade was fine , but now i have no access to any of my desktop manager . i am trying to fix the problem in tty mode , but i don t know what to do ??

thx .

jasonwryan · 2014-07-30 00:13:32

How are you attempting to start X? What is in your logs/journal?

Moving to NC...

karol · 2014-07-30 00:21:23

Run 'startx' from the tty.

fasturtle · 2014-07-30 10:03:53

hi ,

yes , that 's what i ve done , i use tty , and then and i do a startxfce4 , and i think connecting via a terminal , it 's good also , probably more secure .

anyways glamor-egl is not needed by many apps . but now i will really take care when i do an upgrade at the end of the night when i am tired

cheers .

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karol · 2014-07-30 10:22:09

Did you manage to fix your issue? How?
Which apps do need glamor-egl? glamor is now available as an option, no extra package required. xorg-server replaces glamor-egl, just as pacman informed you.

fasturtle · 2014-07-30 11:33:15

Did you manage to fix your issue? How?
Which apps do need glamor-egl? glamor is now available as an option, no extra package required. xorg-server replaces glamor-egl, just as pacman informed you.

my problem was : not possible to access the desktop here xfce4 because i delete glamor-egl ; but with tty i can reach it by term , so problem fixed for me .

glamor-egl is now no needed : https://www.archlinux.org/news/xorg-ser … available/ . i have ati hardware on my computer , so i will see what happens .

ah , yes do you know how to install manually and without network a tarball on arch ??

Last edited by fasturtle (2014-07-30 12:53:57)

karol · 2014-07-30 11:58:54

I don't understand what is the issue.
Why do you think you need glamor-egl?

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fasturtle · 2014-07-30 12:52:46

well , without glamor-egl , if i use lxdm login manager , i can t access xfce4 desktop ; always looping after the password . so i use tty , there are console login manager , and others

graphics login manager , but with only one desktop manager on my computer , it is better to use tty .

qinohe · 2014-07-30 13:04:03

fasturtle wrote:

well , without glamor-egl , if i use lxdm login manager , i can t access xfce4 desktop ; always looping after the password . so i use tty , there are console login manager , and others
graphics login manager , but with only one desktop manager on my computer , it is better to use tty .

This is probably temporary, as the news says:

news wrote:

X is now rootless with the help of systemd-logind, this also means that it must be launched from the same virtual terminal as was used to log in, redirecting stderr also breaks rootless login. The old root execution behavior can be restored through the Xorg.wrap config file (man xorg.wrap). Please note that launching X through a login-manager (gdm, kdm, ...) doesn't yet provide rootless access.

Trilby · 2014-07-30 13:23:12

Glamor-egl is a red herring (classic X-Y problem here) - it was only coincidentally removed at the same time as the Xorg update that actually created the issue.

Fasturtle, please try not to assume causes when you post looking for solutions. The fact that you assumed this was a glamor-egl issue misdirected this entire thread. If you had simply posted the symptoms, you would have been directed to the news in the first response.

Also, please read the news!

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