[SOLVED] After upgrade, i3 lib problems

vrav · 2019-05-18 20:17:12

Hi, just to preface this, this install of arch was my first, six years ago, and is likely a tangled mess. I hadn't upgraded it in probably a year (been developing on windows lately) and decided to try, knowing many things would break. But lo, I have not been able to fix them. I feel like I may have to do a fresh install. Even i3 doesn't launch.

I'm not sure why X is failing, or if this is the correct log (Xorg.0.log.old, as I removed ~/.xinitrc and ran startx to get a browser and make this post)...

https://hastebin.com/idofutofoq.bash

So, with no ~/.xinitrc, X launches fine, but with even an empty file, it dumps to terminal. I have tried uninstalling nvidia drivers, xorg-server, reinstalling it, running nvidia-xconfig, etc, but the result is the same. I know what I did was stupid, but if anyone can help me recover this system I would be very grateful.

I don't know what to look for in the log file, what's normal, what's abnormal, etc, so I don't know where to start.

Last edited by vrav (2019-05-18 21:51:56)

Trilby · 2019-05-18 20:21:23

With an empty xinitrc it should just exit back to the terminal and produce a log just like the one you provided which shows that X exited normally (due to it having nothing to do).

Tell us about the problems you have when you startx with a proper xinitrc, and post that xinitrc.

jasonwryan · 2019-05-18 20:22:33

That log indicates that X ran successfully.

vrav · 2019-05-18 20:43:12

Ahh, thanks. I didn't know. Okay, I guess the main problem is that I'm trying to use i3 and it's broken. I tried this .xinitrc:

setxkbmap dvorak &
exec qtile

and it launched fine, but since i3 is broken

setxkbmap dvorak &
exec i3

dumps to terminal.

So my X is fine... sorry for not understanding how it works / what it expects.

I couldn't find anything online about the error i3 is giving me, though. I have libxrandr 1.5.2-1 installed.

$ i3
i3: symbol lookup error: i3: undefined symbol: xcb_randr_get_monitors_monitors_length

Maybe if I build the latest from github? Sorry, I don't know if this issue is relevant to the Arch forum anymore.

loqs · 2019-05-18 20:57:03

Is the i3 you are using built from source or supplied by some package?

vrav · 2019-05-18 20:58:57

It's i3-wm 4.16.1-1 installed through pacman.

Trilby · 2019-05-18 21:04:10

Please post the output of the following:

type i3
ldd /usr/bin/i3

vrav · 2019-05-18 21:05:27

~ > type i3
i3 is /usr/bin/i3
~ > ldd /usr/bin/i3
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd45bea000)
        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f9c883ce000)
        libxcb-xkb.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libxcb-xkb.so.1 (0x00007f9c881b4000)
        libxcb-xinerama.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libxcb-xinerama.so.0 (0x00007f9c87fb2000)
        libxcb-randr.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libxcb-randr.so.0 (0x00007f9c87da6000)
        libxcb-util.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb-util.so.1 (0x00007f9c87ba0000)
        libxcb-xrm.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xrm.so.0 (0x00007f9c8799a000)
        libyajl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libyajl.so.2 (0x00007f9c8778e000)
        libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0x00007f9c8777e000)
        libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x00007f9c87733000)
        libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f9c876d5000)
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f9c875af000)
        libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0x00007f9c87488000)
        libstartup-notification-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0 (0x00007f9c8747a000)
        libxcb-cursor.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-cursor.so.0 (0x00007f9c87472000)
        libxcb-keysyms.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb-keysyms.so.1 (0x00007f9c8726f000)
        libxcb-icccm.so.4 => /usr/lib/libxcb-icccm.so.4 (0x00007f9c8706a000)
        libxkbcommon-x11.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxkbcommon-x11.so.0 (0x00007f9c87060000)
        libxkbcommon.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxkbcommon.so.0 (0x00007f9c8701e000)
        libpcre.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpcre.so.1 (0x00007f9c86fa9000)
        librt.so.1 => /usr/lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007f9c86f9f000)
        libev.so.4 => /usr/lib/libev.so.4 (0x00007f9c86f8e000)
        libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f9c86e48000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f9c86e27000)
        libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f9c86c62000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f9c86c5b000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f9c86c53000)
        libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x00007f9c86c3b000)
        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00007f9c86bf4000)
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f9c86b25000)
        libfribidi.so.0 => /usr/lib/libfribidi.so.0 (0x00007f9c86907000)
        libthai.so.0 => /usr/lib/libthai.so.0 (0x00007f9c868fc000)
        libffi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libffi.so.6 (0x00007f9c868f1000)
        libpixman-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (0x00007f9c86847000)
        libpng16.so.16 => /usr/lib/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007f9c8680f000)
        libxcb-shm.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libxcb-shm.so.0 (0x00007f9c8660d000)
        libxcb-render.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libxcb-render.so.0 (0x00007f9c86404000)
        libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x00007f9c863f5000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f9c862b6000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00007f9c862a1000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f9c8608a000)
        libX11-xcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libX11-xcb.so.1 (0x00007f9c86085000)
        libxcb-render-util.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-render-util.so.0 (0x00007f9c85e81000)
        libxcb-image.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-image.so.0 (0x00007f9c85c7a000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f9c886a8000)
        libharfbuzz.so.0 => /usr/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0 (0x00007f9c85b7e000)
        libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007f9c85b42000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /usr/lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f9c85b39000)
        libbz2.so.1.0 => /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f9c85b26000)
        libdatrie.so.1 => /usr/lib/libdatrie.so.1 (0x00007f9c8591d000)
        libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f9c85918000)
        libgraphite2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgraphite2.so.3 (0x00007f9c858f3000)
~ >

Last edited by vrav (2019-05-18 21:08:38)

loqs · 2019-05-18 21:09:58

libs not supplied by arch without the required symbol

        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f9c883ce000)
        libxcb-xkb.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libxcb-xkb.so.1 (0x00007f9c881b4000)
        libxcb-xinerama.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libxcb-xinerama.so.0 (0x00007f9c87fb2000)
        libxcb-randr.so.0 => /usr/local/lib/libxcb-randr.so.0 (0x00007f9c87da6000)
        libxcb-util.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb-util.so.1 (0x00007f9c87ba0000)
        libxcb-xrm.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xrm.so.0 (0x00007f9c8799a000)

vrav · 2019-05-18 21:24:57

Sorry but can you walk me through what that means / what I need to do? I'm not familiar with "required symbol," not sure what that means. I assume these libs are no longer provided by pacman so they're out of date and I have to get them somewhere else? Or is there another way?

loqs · 2019-05-18 21:42:56

The following will check to see if anything installed by pacman is using /usr/local (it should just be filesystem that supplies the directory /usr/local)

pacman -Qo /usr/local

Libraries can be placed in multiple directories. The standard location is /usr/lib. If a library or program is built from source it will instead usually install libraries into /usr/local/lib.
The /usr/local/lib version of libxcb-randr.so.0 is being resolved instead of the version in /usr/lib.

vrav · 2019-05-18 21:51:10

~ > pacman -Qo /usr/local
/usr/local/ is owned by filesystem 2018.12-2

I guess it's possible that I installed some of these libs from source years ago. Is there any easy way to get i3 to use the versions in /usr/lib instead of /usr/local/lib? Do I have to manually delete/rename the ones in /usr/local/lib?

I tried renaming /usr/local/lib/libxcb-randr.so.0 just to test and yep, i3 now launches. I guess these libs in local are just leftover from some haphazard experiments I was doing ages ago...

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#1 2019-05-18 20:17:12

[SOLVED] After upgrade, i3 lib problems

#2 2019-05-18 20:21:23

Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade, i3 lib problems

#3 2019-05-18 20:22:33

Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade, i3 lib problems

#4 2019-05-18 20:43:12

Re: [SOLVED] After upgrade, i3 lib problems

#5 2019-05-18 20:57:03

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#6 2019-05-18 20:58:57

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#7 2019-05-18 21:04:10

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#8 2019-05-18 21:05:27

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#9 2019-05-18 21:09:58

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