Updating Slackel led to disaster
Posted: 25. Feb 2023, 17:05
Hi djemos. I noticed a couple of days ago on Distrowatch that there was an update to Slackel. Thank you for this distro.
As I was unsuccessful the last time (a few months ago) being able to install, I made another attempt. It took a long time but it worked. Booted successfully from GRUB, and after OpenBox started, however, Network Manager wasn't enabled. Went into the terminal to do something about it and enabled Wifi. Then I ran Gslapt to upgrade the system which took at least four hours and many resets for my slow Internet connection.
I rebooted from that. Then soon after entering "init 4" it failed "startx" because of a missing shared library, I think called "libxcvt.so" or something alike. On the second attempt I interrupted, logged in as regular user and tried to run "startx" manually but that failed. I also tried to boot with the "huge" kernel instead of normal option, from GRUB menu.
I guess I could copy that library from the ISO or somewhere else but I'm hoping here to read a better solution. Thank you in advance.
As I was unsuccessful the last time (a few months ago) being able to install, I made another attempt. It took a long time but it worked. Booted successfully from GRUB, and after OpenBox started, however, Network Manager wasn't enabled. Went into the terminal to do something about it and enabled Wifi. Then I ran Gslapt to upgrade the system which took at least four hours and many resets for my slow Internet connection.
I rebooted from that. Then soon after entering "init 4" it failed "startx" because of a missing shared library, I think called "libxcvt.so" or something alike. On the second attempt I interrupted, logged in as regular user and tried to run "startx" manually but that failed. I also tried to boot with the "huge" kernel instead of normal option, from GRUB menu.
I guess I could copy that library from the ISO or somewhere else but I'm hoping here to read a better solution. Thank you in advance.