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#1 2011-06-19 23:45:12

johan1391
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[Solved] Xorg installation difficulties

I am running this installation on a Mac OS X host as a virtual machine through Parallels. My first question about my new install is a bizarre output when running start x. After running if i run the "exit" command in the upper right and left bash shells start x crashes, but if I change the order from the upper right to lower right and then the left everything seems like it works out fine. Here are the logs and outputs of the attempts:

UPDATED logs copied from below: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/415126/

http://i.imgur.com/Kk21E.png

http://i.imgur.com/LkaQz.png

EDIT: Forgot to mention, the first instance of the output is the one in which it crashes after exiting two bash shells and the second is the one that allows me to exit all three. Notice the "2 events remaining" vs "0 events remaining" in the first picture.

Thanks in advance.

--John


-- mod edit: read the Forum Etiquette and only post thumbnails http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … s_and_Code [jwr] -- note: Thanks for the heads up, will do in the future.

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#2 2011-06-20 01:18:17

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Re: [Solved] Xorg installation difficulties

Did I leave out any information that would be beneficial to understanding the problem? I would be happy to provide it.

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#3 2011-06-20 01:39:29

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Re: [Solved] Xorg installation difficulties

The rest of the logfile. The screenshot of nano you posted only contains the first few lines. Sometimes there is a special X driver you have to use in a virtual machine. The VMware one is called "xf86-video-vmware"... nor sure about Parallels.


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#4 2011-06-20 03:19:03

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Re: [Solved] Xorg installation difficulties

I'm happy to inform you that I was able to get KDE up and running as I am writing this post from my installation right now using the information from this page https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KD … Manager.29. However, it is important that I fix the underlying issues associated with xorg. Any ideas? I'll copy a log of the file right now.

UPDATE: A full log can be found here: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/415126/

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#5 2011-06-20 07:05:58

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Re: [Solved] Xorg installation difficulties

What exactly is the problem with X? There are no errors in your log and everything is running as expected. Can you please tell us the process you took to get it working and where you encountered problems in this process?

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#6 2011-06-20 09:18:23

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Re: [Solved] Xorg installation difficulties

I followed the Beginner's Guide as closely as possible and referenced the Xorg wiki when needed. As I said before, it seemed like it was crashing. This seems to have manifested in an unstable plamsa operation under KDE.  When I boot up my system plasma crashes right away and Kwin informs me that it must shut all of those services off. I then checked up on kwin and ran in a bash shell to get this output:

[root@john-arch log]# kwin
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keykwin: cannot connect to X server :0
[root@john-arch log]# 

Also, the log contained three errors I noticed (have no idea if they are significant -- I can assume the missing fonts are less important)

16.444] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist.

16.444] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" does not exist.

16.480] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or dir$

Is there any other information you would like?

ADDITIONALLY:

I just finished a clean install of libre office and attempted to run it from the bash shell this is the output:

[root@john-arch ~]# soffice
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyFailed to open display
^[[AInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key^[[BInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin X11 error: Can't open display: 
   Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option
   or check permissions of your X-Server
   (See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details)
[root@john-arch ~]# man x
[root@john-arch ~]# /usr/bin/libreoffice -calc
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyFailed to open display
Warning: -calc is deprecated.  Use --calc instead.
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin X11 error: Can't open display: 
   Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option
   or check permissions of your X-Server
   (See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details)
[root@john-arch ~]# 

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#7 2011-06-20 11:06:48

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Re: [Solved] Xorg installation difficulties

johan1391 wrote:

Also, the log contained three errors I noticed (have no idea if they are significant -- I can assume the missing fonts are less important)

16.444] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist.

16.444] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" does not exist.

16.480] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or dir$

These are warnings, not errors. the first  2 can be ignored safely, the acpid warning means you won't have any acpi functionality like blanking the VM's screen after some minutes of no mouse keyboard activity.

[root@john-arch log]# kwin
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keykwin: cannot connect to X server :0
[root@john-arch log]# 

both kwin and sofiice require xorg to be running, for you it's not running.

Xorg is currently configured to use Vesa, which is very limited and probably the reason why plasma crashes.

post the output of

# lspci

, then we can see what kind of videocard parallels gives to guests.


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#8 2011-06-20 18:23:24

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Re: [Solved] Xorg installation difficulties

Here you go:

[johnwarren@john-arch ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82G35 Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:03.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Device 1ab8:4000
00:05.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21150
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HR/HO/HH (ICH8R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.4 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Device 1ab8:4005
[johnwarren@john-arch ~]$ 

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#9 2011-06-20 19:43:05

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Re: [Solved] Xorg installation difficulties

Have you installed Parallels Tools? They should provide a graphics driver (prlvideo) and even set up an xorg.conf to use it. At least that's what a quick google tells me, I don't own a mac so I've no idea about Parallels actually.

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#10 2011-06-21 04:50:53

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Re: [Solved] Xorg installation difficulties

I've decided to just start a fresh install on virtual machines as there is far more documentation on it. As a side note -- damn this software looks good, I should have just started with it in the first place. Thanks for all the help anyhow.

-- John

EDIT: I now have arch linux running KDE up and running in VirtualBox and man is this program good! I am thoroughly surprised and suggest it to anyone attempting to virtualize Arch. I'm sure I'll be back here in the future.

I was so impressed with arch linux from the virtual machine I have now decided to dual boot my mbp and single boot my old mb on it. Thanks for all the help.

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