Zenwalk 8 problems with X starting, solved then can't login
by rpaugusto from LinuxQuestions.org on (#50843)
Hi!
Hope Zenwalk isn't dead, still like it a lot.
Decided to install last edition of Zenwalk 8 on a VM on KVM (I run Fedora Worstation for work), and after updating I was greeted with the inability to start X. While booting, it tries to start X, it crashes and it keeps trying for a while, until it pauses for 5 mins.
I was able to login through console, add network connectivity and figured out that some packages where missing that were preventing X to start, lxdm.log showed the error messages.
The packages that I installed (from more than 1 mirror, if I remember correctly) were:
Code:libunwind libXfont2 graphite2 libxkbcommon waylandAfter this it starts X and shows the login screen, but when I try to login (user or root), it displays the login again.
Only activity in logs is in lxdm.log, this is added every time I try to login:
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EDIT: messages also has this error that happens during boot:
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Since I'm not an expert, I have to ask: any suggestions? Thanks!
Hope Zenwalk isn't dead, still like it a lot.
Decided to install last edition of Zenwalk 8 on a VM on KVM (I run Fedora Worstation for work), and after updating I was greeted with the inability to start X. While booting, it tries to start X, it crashes and it keeps trying for a while, until it pauses for 5 mins.
I was able to login through console, add network connectivity and figured out that some packages where missing that were preventing X to start, lxdm.log showed the error messages.
The packages that I installed (from more than 1 mirror, if I remember correctly) were:
Code:libunwind libXfont2 graphite2 libxkbcommon waylandAfter this it starts X and shows the login screen, but when I try to login (user or root), it displays the login again.
Only activity in logs is in lxdm.log, this is added every time I try to login:
Quote:
| ** Message: 15:09:41.815: add 0x1e82570 ** Message: 15:09:41.815: prepare greeter on :0 ** Message: 15:09:41.815: start greeter on :0 (lxdm-greeter-gtk:6799): Gtk-WARNING **: 15:09:41.875: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:11:7: not a number (lxdm-greeter-gtk:6799): Gtk-WARNING **: 15:09:41.875: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:11:14: Using Pango syntax for the font: style property is deprecated; please use CSS syntax |
Quote:
| Mar 4 15:40:28 darkstar dbus-daemon[813]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' requested by ':1.0' (uid=0 pid=816 comm="/usr/sbin/console-kit-daemon ") (using servicehelper) Mar 4 15:40:28 darkstar dbus-daemon[813]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' failed: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 127 |
Since I'm not an expert, I have to ask: any suggestions? Thanks!