I installed Slackware 15, added alienbob and restricted to slacking+ after installing slacking+ and then ran the multilib installation script. Before all that i ran slackpkg update-all, slacking install-new and slackpkg update got and restarted the os. Upon restart i made sure to enable a graphical loggin by changing innittab to 4. It does not go into the graphical login and upon startx I get :
Xauthth: file /root/.serverauth.6913 does not exist, .xauthority does not exist...xinit giving up/unable to connect to x server : bad file descriptor/server error.


I need to use my computer to code for school. How can I fix this? Why is it not working and why after running the multilib script does it fail? It is odd slackware is purely 64 bit of 32 bit.

You don't run startx if you have runlevel 4 set in inittab.

Maybe just to get back to a working X try reverting inittab back to runlevel 3 and start X as a normal user.


/root/.serverauth.6913 is an odd error to get if you are running a normal user account. Going back to runlevel 3 will simplify things and make it easier to get back up and running.

Vesa: refusing to run on UEFI
FATAL SERVER ERROR:
EE NO SCREENS FOUND (ee)
...

(EE) SERVER TERMINATED WITH ERROR (1). CLOSING LOG FILES.

I know I shouldn't have to startx but it did what it did and that's not work. I returned it back to 3 and rebooted
And got the same error so thats not the issue.

That's probably related to your video driver. What GPU/driver are you using? Is this an nvidia card with the official driver?

Like i legit did very few things for it not to be working. Updated it, installed slackpkg+, installed multilib script and that's it pretty much and now it's broken lol.

No it's an Intel integrated driver for the thinkpad t460 https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/p...loads/ds105823

Yeah that's why I ask about the nvidia thing. I did a quick search and it looks like this is something that pops up with nvidia cards.

If this is an nvidia card then you need to reinstall the driver after doing multilib.

wow how the hell does multilib mess up the intel stuff. LOL

At least you aren't alone:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...in-4175687045/

Maybe try nomodeset in your kernel boot params. Performance will probably be shit but at least things will run.

No it's HD graphics 520

Is that the only option? I don't want my performance to be shit. There has to he another alternative. What is going on?! I know that can't be the case bc that would be embarrassing - i waited so long for 15 to he released. This would mean Slackware is obsolete, wouldn't it? I don't know any body who uses a 32 bit OS.

i'm curious to know if that actually works. I still don't know why this would be an issue after installing multilib.

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

I did no mindset and got the same error.

Are you using grub? By default slackware uses elilo for efi systems.