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tofu

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Registered: 2008-02-26

Posts: 42

[Solved] Need help with starting Xorg and Truncated files

I am new to Arch Linux. After configuring things for hours, I almost had it except when it showed some truncated files. I looked up on the internet and the key was to use pacman -Fs <pkg here> to resolve it.

However, there were 6 I could not resolve and so I removed them with rm . Xfce, or Xorg for that matter unsurprisingly does not work.

Help with these files?

I'm also using the Core x86_64 version of Arch - all updated to current.

/usr/lib/libgs.so
/usr/lib/libgs.so.8
/usr/lib/libgs.so.8.61
/usr/lib/lib-gtk-x11-2.0.so
/usr/lib/lib-gtk-x11-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/lib-gtk-x11-2.0.so.1200.7

I would rather resolve it manually than a complete reinstall.. which would inevitably run into this equation again.

Thanks

if it helps, packages I installed

firefox, pidgin, comix, mplayer, gimp, jre, nvidia, xorg, links

Last edited by tofu (2008-02-27 23:52:25)

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: [Solved] Need help with starting Xorg and Truncated files

I don't understand. "pacman -Fs" doesn't do anything, so I take it that you meant "pacman -Sf". It's generally a bad idea to just delete some libraries from your system. The files you indicated are in packages ghostscript and gtk2 (respectively). So you could try reinstalling just those ("pacman -Sf ghostscript" and "pacman -Sf gtk2").
Nevertheless, none of those is needed for running X itself, although gtk2 might be needed for your window manager.

I hope you've already seen the beginners guide, particularly the part about Xorg.

tofu

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Registered: 2008-02-26

Posts: 42

Re: [Solved] Need help with starting Xorg and Truncated files

Thanks - will do

It fixed the problem