On 5/27/2017 2:45 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 01:27:28PM -0600, Alan Feuerbacher wrote:
Now that I've got LFS 8.0 up and running with X, I'm trying to address
various issues:
Some of this belongs on blfs-support, although I'll comment now.
But in general try to fix one problem at a time (firefox and
thunderbird counts as one problem).
*I* am working on them one at a time, but throwing piles at you staff
guys. :-)
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Firefox (and Thunderbird) starts ok with root login, but not user login.
There is also an error message about "pixbuf" that I don't understand. Take
a look:
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root [ ~ ]# firefox
(firefox:4512): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not load a pixbuf from
/org/gtk/libgtk/theme/Adwaita/assets/check-symbolic.svg.
This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be
found.
I've never seen that, but for gdk-pixbuf we have a Note if you
installed using a DESTDIR method. Or perhaps shared-mime-info had
a problem.
This is now sorted, given your notes below. Logging in as user root in
the console window, starting X as root, then switching to user lfs in an
xterm (I'm using the basic twm window manager), results in the above
error message. Starting X as user lfs allows proper startup of firefox
and thunderbird.
Which brings up another question: How do I set up the environments so
that I can start X with root, and everything will work with other users?
Or is that all taken care of in later steps when I install a full-blown
window manager? Is there documentation or tutorial material on this? I
want to understand the low-level details.
GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend. Your settings will
not be saved or
shared with other applications.
That's normal! Once it is sorted, start firefox or thunderbird from
a menu.
root [ ~ ]# su - lfs
lfs [ ~ ]$ firefox
No protocol specified
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Error: cannot open display: :0
That sounds like a problem related to su, i.e. the display is owned
by root.
After you sort out the pixbuf warning, try running startx as your
regular user.
The above two lines fixed all issues with starting firefox and thunderbird.
I have no clue about the pixbuf warning.
On another earlier problem, where my login: prompt had extra messages
like "[ ... ] . . ." after the login: prompt, it seems to have gone
away, and it all works fine. Probably something to do with getting
dhcpcd and apache startups sorted.
Alan
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