GDM fails to load after upgrade

permagreen · 2010-04-11 23:31:13

So I recently upgraded my computer and it was a fairly large upgrade, including the openssl upgrade that seems to be causing everyone else so much trouble. Today I rebooted and gdm failed to start, saying

WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory: Maximum number of X display failures reached: check X server for errors

This was preceeded by a few messages telling me the display lasted 0.0254569 seconds (approximately).

I then checked Xorg.0.log and the most suspicious thing I found was:

(WW) Open ACPI failed (var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)

There was also something along the lines of

(WW) AllorEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kdb', 'mouse', or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.

However I don't think that second thing really has anything to do with the current problem.

An attempt to run startx gives me this error:

/usr/bin/X: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory
giving up.

Near as I can tell the problem is either acpid or libcrypto, but either way I'm not sure what to do about it. Any ideas?

Flag · 2010-04-12 05:18:33

Same here

Mektub · 2010-04-12 05:25:26

permagreen,

most probably its libcrypto.so.0.9.8. Some program was not updated and still wants the old library.

Check for programs that still want the old lib with the script on post 7 of:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=95065

Its:

find {,/usr}/{,s}bin/ /usr/lib/ -type f -printf \~%p -exec readelf -d \{\} \; 2>/dev/null | awk '/libssl.so.0.9.8|libcrypto.so.0.9.8/{print$1}' RS="~" FS="\n"

Mektub

Allan · 2010-04-12 05:36:03

My guess is that it is xorg-server itself the needs updating. Try changing mirrors.

Flag · 2010-04-12 05:39:37

Well could do that, but it's no use as pacman won't run because it can't find libcrypto.so.0.9.8

Mektub · 2010-04-12 05:43:46

Flag wrote:

Well could do that, but it's no use as pacman won't run because it can't find libcrypto.so.0.9.8

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=94902

Mektub

Allan · 2010-04-12 05:44:03

Umm... how did you do the update? It is always best to update the whole system at one time.

Anyway, there are threads here explaining how to recover from that. A forum search will help.

Flag · 2010-04-12 05:48:21

Full system update, pacman itself as # 1.

Flag · 2010-04-12 06:33:16

ln -sf /usr/lib/libssl.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8
ln -sf /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8

did the trick, thanks to csergec

Allan · 2010-04-12 06:53:29

That is not a good fix and is known to cause issues. Change to an up to date mirror and do a full system update.

Mektub · 2010-04-12 07:09:14

Flag wrote:

ln -sf /usr/lib/libssl.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8
ln -sf /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
did the trick, thanks to csergec

As Allan says, you are heading for trouble. Do it the proper way by updating the system.

Mektub

Flag · 2010-04-12 07:27:21

Did so after I got my system back, trust it is fine now ( well hope so )

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GDM fails to load after upgrade

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