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areuz

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[Solved] A lot of dependencies for xorg-server didn't get installed

I've screwed up my last Arch install and decided to just reinstall it.
Using installation notes (based on ArchWiki and other stuff) I ran into a problem when trying to run 'startx'.
# At this point I did 'yaourt -S xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-xinit i3' ,put 'exec i3;' in '.xinitrc' and installed 'nvidia-beta' drivers.

"error while loading shared libraries: libpciaccess.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
This wasn't a big deal, I just installed it manually, because who knows why it wasn't installed, or maybe removed as a conflict. But after running 'startx' again, a new missing library showed up, I installed it, and a new one popped up... At this point I realized that something was wrong.

A lot of xorg-server dependencies didnt't get installed, I want to know why.. and how to fix this?

My Arch installation notes - I'm absolutely sure that I did everything that is written in them: (and it did WORK last time)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ … EM3T3pjdEk

P.S. I just ran 'sudo find / -name "package_name" ' for a few packages, and it found them only in '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/FULLPACKAGENAME.pkg.tar.xz'

Last edited by areuz (2017-02-03 17:51:22)

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areuz

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Re: [Solved] A lot of dependencies for xorg-server didn't get installed

Hmm.. As I said, at the third missing dependency, I started to search for a reason why it didn't install them instead of trying to install that one aswell. Turns out, only 3 libraries were missing (I hope):

libpciaccess
libdrm
libxshmfence

Also.. libdrm isn't listed as a Xorg-Server dependency? huh?
I think that the dependency list is screwed up right now, unsure why...

I would like a definitive answer why this happened.. but going to mark this one as solved. Sorry for making noise

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Scimmia

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Re: [Solved] A lot of dependencies for xorg-server didn't get installed

Sounds like a video driver problem. How did you set them up?

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areuz

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Re: [Solved] A lot of dependencies for xorg-server didn't get installed

Sounds like a video driver problem.

Indeed could be. The fact that I'm using 'nvidia-beta' doesn't help the case either.

EDIT: How do you exactly setup video drivers? If you mean xorg.conf, then I do not use that, It never works for me.

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Scimmia

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Re: [Solved] A lot of dependencies for xorg-server didn't get installed

What, exactly, did you install, and what is xorg actually using?

areuz

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Re: [Solved] A lot of dependencies for xorg-server didn't get installed

I installed

nvidia-beta nvidia-utils-beta

and chose 'nvidia-libgl'.

According to

lshw -c video
 *-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:54 memory:f6000000-f6ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff

And the Xorg.0.log says (At the end):

[  2435.752] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Ancor Communications Inc ASUS VW247 (DFP-5): connected
[  2435.753] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Ancor Communications Inc ASUS VW247 (DFP-5): Internal TMDS
[  2435.753] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Ancor Communications Inc ASUS VW247 (DFP-5): 165.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[  2435.753] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): 
[  2435.810] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Ancor Communications Inc ASUS VW247 (DFP-5): connected
[  2435.810] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Ancor Communications Inc ASUS VW247 (DFP-5): Internal TMDS
[  2435.810] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Ancor Communications Inc ASUS VW247 (DFP-5): 165.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[  2435.810] (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): 

Edit: Also, if I (now that I fixed the missing libraries) scroll in the Xorg log, I see the Nvidia module loading and stuff, so I think it's working.

  LoadModule: "nvidia"
[  2417.910] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[  2417.916] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[  2417.916] 	compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[  2417.916] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[  2417.917] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
[  2417.917] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nouveau
[  2417.917] (II) UnloadModule: "nouveau"
[  2417.917] (II) Unloading nouveau
[  2417.917] (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)

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Re: [Solved] A lot of dependencies for xorg-server didn't get installed

So you have the wrong libgl package, at the very least.

areuz

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Re: [Solved] A lot of dependencies for xorg-server didn't get installed

So you have the wrong libgl package, at the very least.

Output of $yaourt -Q nvidia-libgl-beta

local/nvidia-libgl-beta 378.09-1

And output of $yaourt -Q | grep "libgl"

local/lib32-nvidia-libgl-beta 378.09-1
local/nvidia-libgl-beta 378.09-1

What do you mean 'wrong'?
If the problem of missing libraries is somehow linked to incorrect 'libgl' package, please do elaborate.
Sorry If I sound inimical, but I'm starting to think that you are deviating from the initial problem.

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Scimmia

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Re: [Solved] A lot of dependencies for xorg-server didn't get installed

You had said you were using nvidia-libgl, now it's nvidia-libgl-beta. OK

Actually it is the same problem. The deps you mentioned are all pulled in by mesa, which is needed if you want to use the modesetting driver.

areuz

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Re: [Solved] A lot of dependencies for xorg-server didn't get installed

Sorry, I should have mentioned it, I just thought using 'nvidia-beta' would imply it.

And yeah, that looks like it might have caused the dependency problem - too risky to test now .
Is there anything I should be worried about not working correctly later on?
Right now everything is running pretty well, I've even tried a few games using Steam.

Last edited by areuz (2017-02-05 10:44:05)

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