startx error when setting up X server on archlinux
Solution 1
Here's what I'd do:
Run ldd /usr/bin/Xorg
You should get a line that looks like this:
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb7357000)
If ldd
claims that it can't resolve what file libz.so.1
is in, then uninstall and reinstall zlib
:
pacman -R -f zlib
pacman -S zlib
If ldd
can find a specific libz.so.1
, then check to see if that file constitutes a broken symbolic link:
ls -l /usr/lib/libz.so.1
(Or whatever ldd
told you that libz.so.1
resolves to).
On my Arch boxes, /usr/lib/libz.so.1
is a symbolic link of libz.so.1.2.6
. If /usr/lib/libz.so.1
links to some weird place, like a home directory, track down why - that shouldn't happen.
Ensure that whatever file that ldd
resolves libz.so.1
to actually exists, and has contents. I get this:
% file libz.so.1.2.6
libz.so.1.2.6: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=0xb32fb568a025a99ed67220243b487b93ae8ef948, stripped
If the link exists, but the linked-to libz.so.1.2.6
doesn't exist, perhaps you can do the two pacman
command sequence above and get everything back. I guess I'd advise against just doing the two pacman
commands, until you understand what's going on. Something must have changed, unless this is a new installation, and somehow the zlib
package didn't get installed.
Solution 2
Upon executing startx
in the terminal, I got an identical error message. I fixed it bypacman -Sy zlib
, which updated the zlib package. That fixed it for me. I'm very new to arch however, so this may not be the best solution.
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Aby James
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Aby James over 1 year
I am trying to install X on my archlinux home desktop. I get this error when trying to start it (startx/xinit):
[root@computer ~]# startx xauth: file /root/.Xauthority does not exist xauth: file /root/.Xauthority does not exist /usr/bin/X: /usr/lib/libz.so.1: version 'ZLIB_1.2.5.2' not found (required by /usr/lib/libfontenc.so.1) xinit: giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused xinit: server error
I googled around and asked in #archlinux irc, but couldn't resolve the issue.
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Admin about 12 years
useradd -m -g users -G audio,lp,optical,storage,video,wheel,games,power,scanner -s /bin/bash username cp /etc/skel/.xinitrc ~/.xinitrc
create a user and add that user to the default groups and do a startx. don't start x with root. Try if that works.
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G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' over 8 yearsHow does an
echo
command help? Did you mean to say>> ~/.xinitrc
?