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- Nov 12, 2002
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I'm just now getting back to working on my T400 Thinkpad Gentoo install.
There's 2 problems I have, one big, one small.
I emerged slocate early on in the install process, and now when I try to use it I get an error. I haven't looked into this much, but googling turned up little. This should be an easy fix I would think, but I'm not sure what could cause this problem. I've emerged slocate again, but that did not help. This is what I get:
The other problem is with X. I emerged X without issue, as well as kdebase-meta, then placed "exec startkde" in ~/.xinitrc. When I do startx, I get a black screen with an X for the mouse pointer - it responds to mouse movement, but no environment loads. If I wait 5 minutes, it will drop me back to the console. If I hit crtl-alt-backspace, it also drops me back.
When back at the console, I get messages reflecting repeatedly failed attempts to do something. They read:
Then finally it says:
If I do this with sudo, I get the same result. If I do this as root, I get 3 terminal windows and an xclock window... Not what I expected? Never seen an environment like that, so I'm not sure what I need to do to fix X under my user account, or what I need to do to load KDE properly - I'm assuming right now that KDE is actually fine, but since I'm only telling it to start from xinitrc under my user account, when I'm under root its not launching because theres no instruction to tell it to. I'm experienced with Gnome and XFCE, but I've never used KDE before so I could really use some help here. Thanks for your input.
There's 2 problems I have, one big, one small.
I emerged slocate early on in the install process, and now when I try to use it I get an error. I haven't looked into this much, but googling turned up little. This should be an easy fix I would think, but I'm not sure what could cause this problem. I've emerged slocate again, but that did not help. This is what I get:
Code:
mrb78s@l3adf3h ~ $ locate test
locate: fatal error: Could not find user database '/var/lib/slocate/slocate.db': No such file or directory
The other problem is with X. I emerged X without issue, as well as kdebase-meta, then placed "exec startkde" in ~/.xinitrc. When I do startx, I get a black screen with an X for the mouse pointer - it responds to mouse movement, but no environment loads. If I wait 5 minutes, it will drop me back to the console. If I hit crtl-alt-backspace, it also drops me back.
When back at the console, I get messages reflecting repeatedly failed attempts to do something. They read:
Code:
AUDIT: *Date and Time* 2159 X: client 1 rejected from local host ( uid=1000 gid=1000 pid=2158 )
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specificied
Then finally it says:
Code:
..error setting MTRR (base = 0xd0000000, size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22)
giving up.
If I do this with sudo, I get the same result. If I do this as root, I get 3 terminal windows and an xclock window... Not what I expected? Never seen an environment like that, so I'm not sure what I need to do to fix X under my user account, or what I need to do to load KDE properly - I'm assuming right now that KDE is actually fine, but since I'm only telling it to start from xinitrc under my user account, when I'm under root its not launching because theres no instruction to tell it to. I'm experienced with Gnome and XFCE, but I've never used KDE before so I could really use some help here. Thanks for your input.
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