FS#22595 - startx fails to start in Arch i686 installation as virtualbox guest with guest add on.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Aravind Raghavan (arrowind) - Monday, 24 January 2011, 21:15 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Tuesday, 24 May 2011, 16:08 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

startx fails to start in Arch i686 installation as virtualbox guest with guest add on. I have attached the Xorg.0.log.

Host: Slackware 13.1 x86
VirtualBox : 4.0.2
Archlinux : latest i686


Steps to reproduce:

Install ArchLinux as Virtualbox guest OS from 2010.05 image
Upgrade all packages using:
Pacman -Syu

Install KDE:
pacman -S kde-meta phonon-xine

Add daemons to rc.conf:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus hal network netfs crond sshd)

Install Xorg:
pacman -S xorg

Copy /etc/skel/.xinitrc to /root/
update: exec ck-launch-session startkde

Then $ startx
This task depends upon

Closed by  Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Tuesday, 24 May 2011, 16:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 25 January 2011, 07:46 GMT
You didn't attach the logfile.
Comment by Aravind Raghavan (arrowind) - Wednesday, 26 January 2011, 23:36 GMT
attached xsession errror and xorg log
   Xorg.0.log (27.4 KiB)
   xsession-error.txt (3 KiB)
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Friday, 15 April 2011, 10:32 GMT
does this problem still occur?
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 05 May 2011, 10:45 GMT
Is this still an issue with mesa and libgl from testing? What I can extract from your logs is that the swrast_dri driver is used for OpenGL. This driver has received TFP support a while ago which causes crashes when Kwin tries to use it.

Loading...