I already tried out mint, it was a bit boring
also I already got far enough into slackware that I'm trying to update from a mirror and for some reason I can't connect to internet
I already did netconfig
and pinging doesn't do anything it just claims I can't reach anything
Using ip link show and then using ifconfig eth0 or ip link set dev eth0 just changed the name for some reason?
#Slackware networking not working
open meadow
strange storm
I haven't used slackware before, so take this with a grain of salt. udev changes the names of the NICs on your machine so that they will always be the same name upon reboot. So use those names when you set up your networking
open meadow
Eitherent shows as working but pinging still does nothing
*Ethernet
Yeah, it ain't reaching the router
I can't ping the router
strange storm
Do you have a route set up? What does ip r show?
timber kelp
Show us the ifconfig output?
open meadow
Eithernet doesn't show anything because I don't have it plugged in at the moment but there's normally some rx packets being recieved
*Ethernet
open meadow
I think I've gotta somehow change the loopback address to the address of the router I'm trying to connect to
Is my dhcpd.conf file supposed to be empty?
It keeps saying that the directory just doesn't exist
I did something
I'm not sure what
I think I fixed the ip address thing or something because it's pinging now
Idk how to make it stop
strange storm
Idk how to make it stop
ctrl+c to stop a program that's running
open meadow
I could ping the router but I still can't ping google or anything like that
From anything I can find dns isn't set up but how would I set up dns?
strange storm
From anything I can find dns isn't set up but how would I set up dns?
There are different ways of setting up DNS, I'm not sure which way slackware recommends. Is there anything in their documentation?
open meadow
As far as I know no, however I think I just screwed up because I changed it from using autoconfig for both ipv4 and ipv6 to just ipv4
and now it works
strange storm
Did you follow these instructions? https://docs.slackware.com/slackbook:network
Ah ok
open meadow
As far as I know no, however I think I just screwed up because I changed it from...
netconfig not autoconfig
strange storm
Ahh, you're cross-posting. It would be best to either only ask questions here or in general, but not both
open meadow
Yeah I'm thinking I've solved it but I'm not sure
open meadow
Does anyone know how to solve ".serverauth.993" does not exist? it shows up when trying to start a windows manager
timber kelp
Does anyone know how to solve ".serverauth.993" does not exist? it shows up when...
What command are you running to try to start a wm?
What is the output of ls -ld ~
timber kelp
That last bit should be a tilde
Not a dash
(The curly key above tab on a US keyboard)
open meadow
(The curly key above tab on a US keyboard)
Now it says invalid option
(invalid option -- '~')
timber kelp
Show a picture? You're missing a space or something
Check my command very carefully and type it exactly, because it for sure works to show what I want
open meadow
Show a picture? You're missing a space or something
I don't htink I'm missing a space or anything
*think
timber kelp
Yes, there should be a space between -ld and ~
~ is shorthand for the current user's home directory, I didn't want to be guessing at it's path
But, first thing I notice from the screenshot is that you are running as the root user. You should not run a graphical desktop as the root user. Not that it would be unfunctional, but it opens up rush that you don't need to be taking
Have you created a regular user account yet?
open meadow
Yeah
timber kelp
Okay, you should try startx when logged in as your regular user, it might just work, but if you get the same problems, then show me the ls output from your regular user
open meadow
timber kelp
Did you do a full install of Slackware, or minimal, then adding packages?
open meadow
Full install
timber kelp
Okay, so you should have all of the dependencies you need. Can you cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log?
timber kelp
Gods it's been so long since I've used Slackware in anger. Try sudo init 4, or sudo runlevel 4, I can't remember which of those will elevate your runlevel to graphical multiuser and just give you a login screen. I would usually just change the value in /etc/inittab from 3 to 4 and reboot when I used to use Slackware regularly
I really hope you don't actually need to configure your xorg. That's some pain usually
open meadow
It's asking for a password and it's not the password for either root or my normal account
timber kelp
Oh, I bet your regular user isn't a sudoer. su -, enter your root password, then run those commands without sudo
Is Slackware your first attempt at Linux?
open meadow
Is Slackware your first attempt at Linux?
No, I'm just a bit of an idiot and I'm not very familiar with linux
timber kelp
No worries. Just that Slackware, like Arch, doesn't do a lot of handholding.
open meadow
I've noticed
timber kelp
Lol
open meadow
It says it's starting the X11 manager
timber kelp
It's how I cut my teeth though, it will give you a solid foundation
timber kelp
It says it's starting the X11 manager
And hopefully dropping you at a login screen?
timber kelp
Hmmmmm
timber kelp
Hit enter again, it's probably back at the shell
open meadow
Yeah, I think you're right
Tried init 4 again and this time it did nothing
I'm thinking of just rebooting and trying init 4 again
I'm gonna do that
That didn't wrok
*work
I might just not use slackware and go with something else
This has been a dumpster fire
timber kelp
Sorry, I wandered off to play games for a bit. Slackware definitely takes some fiddling. The community is smaller than you will find if you run something like Debian or Fedora. To really wrangle Slackware, you'll either need to know your CLI pretty well, or be prepared to learn it trial-by-fire style. From what I saw in this thread before I joined, and what I was here for later, I have three observations/tips:
1- Your computer was not able to access the internet probably because you hadn't run dhcpcd (the dhcp client daemon), Slack feels like you'd still have to do that by yourself.
2- Launching the wm, if you truly intend to do it from a bare login shell, more power to you, but when I ran Slackware as a desktop machine, the first thing I'd do is sudo nano /etc/inittab and change the line about runlevel from 3 to 4. Save and reboot and you should get a graphical login.
3- I think you were missing sudo privileges, so you'll need to su -, then run visudo, check out which group is granted sudo privileges, then add yourself to that group, which you can do manually with nano /etc/group, just make sure you get the spelling of your username correct. Then log out/log in to be able to use sudo properly.