[Solved] - Qtile won't start up

kamehameha · 2021-06-12 18:51:38

I've written about my problem here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/co … _linux_32/

Essentially, Qtile won't start up. I'd log in with my display manager (lightdm), the screen goes black, then I'm back at the display manager. Xfce4 works fine. Awesome works fine. But Qtile... no.

This is what I get when, as written in the Arch Wiki, I type...
echo "exec qtile" > /tmp/.start_qtile ; xinit /tmp/.start_qtile -- :2
...to debug Qtile: https://pastebin.com/DBBNMwTX

Last edited by levi (2021-06-14 05:55:14)

levi · 2021-06-12 19:41:51

As that log says, check ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.2.log in case there's anything more in there. I doubt it because from the log you posted, it falls over after not being able to access /dev/tty0. It's surprising the xfce and awesome work well using the same X interface. Maybe it's misconfigured to use the wrong tty therefore. If I do ls -l /dev/tty* I find that the tty owned by me is tty1.

kamehameha · 2021-06-12 19:48:19

This is what I got from ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.2.log: https://pastebin.com/mXj5UyvX

Not sure what can be found from here....

levi · 2021-06-12 19:58:24

Yes, that log file shows the system is starting up relatively normally until it discovered it's using the wrong tty. Do an 'ls -l /dev/tty*' to see which ttys you own. On my system tty0 is owned by root and only local user and group can write to it, so I shouldn't have access to it unless I sudo it.

kamehameha · 2021-06-12 20:53:15

It says tty 5

levi · 2021-06-12 23:00:41

Okay, so if your tty is tty5 it doesn't explain why X is trying to talk to tty0 when it starts up to load qtile. I don't know qtile, but perhaps it's configurable there.

andreas_baumann · 2021-06-13 07:37:56

parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (Permission denied)

I don't think this is the reason, why it doesn't start up, but you
can add your login user to the tty group maybe
(gpasswd -a user tty).

Starting qtile by hand I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/qtile", line 33, in <module>
sys.exit(load_entry_point('qtile==0.16.1', 'console_scripts', 'qtile')())
File "/usr/bin/qtile", line 22, in importlib_load_entry_point
for entry_point in distribution(dist_name).entry_points
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/metadata.py", line 524, in distribution
return Distribution.from_name(distribution_name)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/metadata.py", line 187, in from_name
raise PackageNotFoundError(name)
importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: qtile

So, there is some Python module missing. Let me rebuild qtile and see if
the problem disappears then..

andreas_baumann · 2021-06-13 09:22:37

So, should work now.

kamehameha · 2021-06-14 00:19:31

It works. Thanks so much guys!!
I did "gpasswd -a user tty", "sudo pacman -Rns qtile" then "sudo pacman -S qtile".

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[Solved] - Qtile won't start up

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