If you're interested in some of the Slackware history from the late 90's and early 2000's, you will enjoy this episode of the Slackware ARM vlog!

David Cantrell worked in the Slackware core team between 1999-2001, created the Slackware logo, co-developed the web site, the Slackware Linux Essentials book, ported

Slackware to the SPARC architecture, developed the first Slackware automatic update tool and introduced a number of other core packages into the distribution.

In this discussion, David delves into his journey of discovering Linux and his experience working for Slackware. He offers valuable insights into the early days of the Linux ecosystem, a time when the platform was gradually gaining recognition and acceptance in the tech community. Through his perspective, we gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities that characterised this formative period in Linux's history

Why doesn't the Slackware site have a DVD iso for current that I can download and install to a thumb drive to install just like we do with 15?

Also, is it worth upgrading to current?

I don't have any problems with my Slackware 15 and I just update from the patches directory the software I need like Firefox and important things

I tried upgrading to -current without reading the Readme. Oops, I fucked up. So I thought I'd reinsert my install USB, set it as a mirror, and use slackpkg to install its packages. That was a double mistake, and now I can't do anything with my system at all.

How can I use my Slackware USB to replace my on-disk packages with its packages? I don't want to lose my data, I just want to go back from my broken -current to 15 using my USB. It feels like there's got to be an easy way to do this.

Hi all,

Sway/Hyprland don't start in slackware-current, i haven't change anything so i'm assuming did broke after an upgrade of some packages, probably a week ago? I'm not really sure when because i did stop using the PC for some days and when i did use it again my WM was broken. Seems a permission issue for my regular user, root user can start sway no issues.

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I have the following in the logs of Hyprland

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[libseat] [libseat/backend/seatd.c:66] Could not connect to socket /run/seatd.sock: Permission denied

[libseat] [libseat/backend/logind.c:317] Could not activate session: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 127

[backend/backend.c:104] Timeout waiting session to become active

[backend/backend.c:406] Failed to start a DRM session

[CRITICAL] m_sWLRBackend was NULL! This usually means wlroots could not find a GPU or enountered some issues.

[CRITICAL] Critical error thrown: wlr_backend_autocreate() failed!

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I do start through "dbus-launch Hyprland", i did try with dbus-session-run but can't make it work... any idea what i'm missing?

Thanks!

Hi,
I am trying pxe boot in a virtual environment using Oracle Virtualbox.
The networking is in bridged mode with eth0 and the distro I am trying to boot is slackware64 15.0.
However after getting a IP from the dhcp server , I get a "invalid or corrupt kernel image" error.

I get the message.txt displayed and memtest works too. The error is just for the kernel.
Is there any workaround to this ?
Thanks.

TLDR: VirusTotal and Windows defender detect a virus within an alienbob slackware download.

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I downloaded this from the slackware.nl website, but somehow my browser detected this. Should i be worreid or something?

Edit: Well that's weird.

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I installed Slackware 15.0 in a vm. I tried updating it to current. I did the usual commands: slackpkg update, slackpkg install-new, slackpkg upgrade-all, slackpkg clean-system. But it stops working properly after i do slackpkg install-new. When I try slackpkg upgrade-all, it the main error is

wget: /lib64/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1)

Error - Package not installed! Not found error!

Any one got an idea of what's wrong?

Not sure if this is a KDE issue or a Slackware issue but I figured I'd be lazy and check if someone has experienced the same thing.

When doing something that puts load on the system, it will intermittently freeze at times. No mouse or keyboard input possible. It lasts for 5-10 seconds and the system resumes as normal afterwards. At the moment I'm running slackpkg upgrade-all, but it could also be compiling something unrelated (qemu as an example).

I have never experienced this on another distribution so I'm not sure where to start.

Hello fellow slackers,

Would anyone happen to have some recommendation for an LTE modem in USB "stick" form factor, one that would work well with Slackware on the computer side and T-Mobile on the wireless network side? I previously had great experiences with Huawei E303, but that modem is 3.5G (HSPA) only, and that network has been shut down in my area - hence I need to find some newer USB "stick" modem that does LTE. The relevance to Slackware is that I am the kind of gal who refuses to use any kind of GUI desktop environment, hence no NetworkManager or ModemManager or any of those doodads for me: when I was happily using the E303 (when we still had 3G), I would manually run pppd from the command line, with a hand-crafted config file for the "peer" being dialed, and I want to keep the same paradigm. Hence my question is: which model of LTE-capable, T-Mobile-compatible USB "stick" cellular data modem I should buy that would be most friendly to purely manual pppd operation without NetworkManager, without ModemManager, without any of those modernities?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Root cause of the problem arose , when ffmpeg failed to use "drawtext" feature.

The exact problem : https://www.reddit.com/r/ffmpeg/comments/15e767d/compiled_with_enablelibfreetype_but_getting_no/

Please check other comments for the process.

Any clue?

In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:32,

from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gasyncqueue.h:32,

from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:32,

from hb-gobject-structs.cc:30:

hb-gobject-structs.cc: In function 'GType hb_gobject_buffer_get_type()':

/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gatomic.h:113:19: error: argument 2 of '__atomic_load' must not be a pointer to a 'volatile' type

113 | __atomic_load (gapg_temp_atomic, &gapg_temp_newval, __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST); \

| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:260:7: note: in expansion of macro 'g_atomic_pointer_get'

260 | (!g_atomic_pointer_get (location) && \

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc:45:8: note: in expansion of macro 'g_once_init_enter'

45 | if (g_once_init_enter (&type)) { \

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc:55:9: note: in expansion of macro '_HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE'

55 | _HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE (hb_##name, hb_gobject_##name, hb_##name##_reference, hb_##name##_destroy);

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc:57:1: note: in expansion of macro 'HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE'

57 | HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE (buffer)

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc: In function 'GType hb_gobject_blob_get_type()':

/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gatomic.h:113:19: error: argument 2 of '__atomic_load' must not be a pointer to a 'volatile' type

113 | __atomic_load (gapg_temp_atomic, &gapg_temp_newval, __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST); \

| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:260:7: note: in expansion of macro 'g_atomic_pointer_get'

260 | (!g_atomic_pointer_get (location) && \

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc:45:8: note: in expansion of macro 'g_once_init_enter'

45 | if (g_once_init_enter (&type)) { \

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc:55:9: note: in expansion of macro '_HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE'

55 | _HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE (hb_##name, hb_gobject_##name, hb_##name##_reference, hb_##name##_destroy);

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc:58:1: note: in expansion of macro 'HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE'

58 | HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE (blob)

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc: In function 'GType hb_gobject_face_get_type()':

/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gatomic.h:113:19: error: argument 2 of '__atomic_load' must not be a pointer to a 'volatile' type

113 | __atomic_load (gapg_temp_atomic, &gapg_temp_newval, __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST); \

| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:260:7: note: in expansion of macro 'g_atomic_pointer_get'

260 | (!g_atomic_pointer_get (location) && \

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc:45:8: note: in expansion of macro 'g_once_init_enter'

45 | if (g_once_init_enter (&type)) { \

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc:55:9: note: in expansion of macro '_HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE'

55 | _HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE (hb_##name, hb_gobject_##name, hb_##name##_reference, hb_##name##_destroy);

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc: In function 'GType hb_gobject_font_get_type()':

/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gatomic.h:113:19: error: argument 2 of '__atomic_load' must not be a pointer to a 'volatile' type

113 | __atomic_load (gapg_temp_atomic, &gapg_temp_newval, __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST); \

| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:260:7: note: in expansion of macro 'g_atomic_pointer_get'

260 | (!g_atomic_pointer_get (location) && \

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc:45:8: note: in expansion of macro 'g_once_init_enter'

45 | if (g_once_init_enter (&type)) { \

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc:55:9: note: in expansion of macro '_HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE'

55 | _HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE (hb_##name, hb_gobject_##name, hb_##name##_reference, hb_##name##_destroy);

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc:60:1: note: in expansion of macro 'HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE'

60 | HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE (font)

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc: In function 'GType hb_gobject_font_funcs_get_type()':

/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gatomic.h:113:19: error: argument 2 of '__atomic_load' must not be a pointer to a 'volatile' type

113 | __atomic_load (gapg_temp_atomic, &gapg_temp_newval, __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST); \

| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:260:7: note: in expansion of macro 'g_atomic_pointer_get'

260 | (!g_atomic_pointer_get (location) && \

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc:45:8: note: in expansion of macro 'g_once_init_enter'

45 | if (g_once_init_enter (&type)) { \

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc:55:9: note: in expansion of macro '_HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE'

55 | _HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE (hb_##name, hb_gobject_##name, hb_##name##_reference, hb_##name##_destroy);

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc:61:1: note: in expansion of macro 'HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE'

61 | HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE (font_funcs)

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc: In function 'GType hb_gobject_unicode_funcs_get_type()':

/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gatomic.h:113:19: error: argument 2 of '__atomic_load' must not be a pointer to a 'volatile' type

113 | __atomic_load (gapg_temp_atomic, &gapg_temp_newval, __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST); \

| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gthread.h:260:7: note: in expansion of macro 'g_atomic_pointer_get'

260 | (!g_atomic_pointer_get (location) && \

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc:45:8: note: in expansion of macro 'g_once_init_enter'

45 | if (g_once_init_enter (&type)) { \

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc:55:9: note: in expansion of macro '_HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE'

55 | _HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE (hb_##name, hb_gobject_##name, hb_##name##_reference, hb_##name##_destroy);

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hb-gobject-structs.cc:62:1: note: in expansion of macro 'HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE'

62 | HB_DEFINE_BOXED_TYPE (unicode_funcs)

| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

make[4]: *** [Makefile:1119: libharfbuzz_la-hb-gobject-structs.lo] Error 1

make[4]: Leaving directory '/tmp/SBo/harfbuzz-0.9.19/src'

make[3]: *** [Makefile:1318: all-recursive] Error 1

make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/SBo/harfbuzz-0.9.19/src'

make[2]: *** [Makefile:697: all] Error 2

make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/SBo/harfbuzz-0.9.19/src'

make[1]: *** [Makefile:372: all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/SBo/harfbuzz-0.9.19'

make: *** [Makefile:303: all] Error 2

root@Slackware:/data/slackware_soft/harfbuzz#

root@Slackware:/data/slackware_soft/harfbuzz# ls

README harfbuzz-0.9.19.tar.bz2 harfbuzz.SlackBuild* harfbuzz.info slack-desc

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I have Slackware 15 and I manually update the patches from the patches directory.

Someone mentioned slackpkg that I could use to automate it, however I have the 6.6.17 kernel and don't want it regressing my kernel to 5.15.xxx.

Do I just blacklist the kernel update part?

Hello folks,

since i've recently took maintainership for Xnest, I'd like to know whether anybody here using it and having problems I'm not yet aware of.

Thx.

Hello folks,

anybody here still running the Xserver as suid root ?

I'm currently investigating whether we could get rid of few kLOC for coping with that. Solaris still needs it today, but if its the only platform, we might move to an OS specific solution.

Hey slackers - I'm trying to install to a 486/66DX - I've installed Slack 1.x and it's fine, but I see floppy disk support up thru slack 11.0. What is the highest version you suggest installing on a 486 machine, tho??? I'm hoping to get a GUI WM going and see 11 is on KDE - 1.x is a much more basic X WM... if you have any suggestions I'd love the input!!

I'm using bare.i but might try to use NFS in the future...

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I'm sure there is a wiki page that explains this but you guys will have to be my ChatGPT for now.

So, I have tested this multiple times now with the exact same result.

1. Install Slackware from ISO (removing all games etc from KDE, or not)

2. Boot into new system

3. Run slackpkg update gpg

4. Run slackpkg install-new

5. Run slackpkg upgrade-all

6. Glibc breaks, making the system completely unusable

This happens regardless if I choose a slackware 15.0 mirror or a slackware-current one. What am I missing?

EDIT: Thanks for all the replies, it might have been a corrupted ISO or something but I tried using the current iso instead and that worked fine so problem solved!

I recently had patched with the dhcp4.4.3 patch in the Slackware 15 patches directory and got errors about dchp6 refusing connection and many "transport endpoint" errors.

These would show up in my syslog throughout the day at different intervals.

I recently had to reinstall to increase my / directory size and so now I'm on the version before 4.4.3 so I no longer get any errors.

When I did have the errors though "ifconfig" still showed an inet 6 and inet 4 address and internet worked normally.

Does anyone know what these "transport endpoint" errors are?

I read that it had something to do with filesystem errors?

Anyways, I've been holding off upgrading to 4.4.3 for the time being.

I have a pcie wifi card in my new desktop that seems a little slow compared to my ac1200 dual antenna usb dongle that I had in another computer.

If I hook up the usb dongle will it take precedence over the internal wifi card or do I have to physically remove the card to have Slackware use the usb wifi dongle?

Is there a way to switch between them without removing them?

The current kernel update broke my Nvidia driver, anyone else ?

Hi,

I like very much Slackware, it was my first distro and I used it for production purpose many times with success but actually it is seen as an old thing and my boss refuse to use it.

I would like to know if in the next releases something like systemd and MAC control will be included in the main release.

In a first time I disliked systemd but using it at work I started to appreciate it. Now it is actually adopted by most main distro. Actually I'm using a software that need systemd and systemd timers but I would like use it on slackware but due to spec I can't for the systemd missing part. So there is a chance that systemd will be included in Slackware?

My second question is about MAC control. Why actually there is not a MAC control system available on Slackware? Why Mr Volkerding does not want include it? I used SELinux and apparmor in production and they are very good. AppArmor is the simpler from my point of view and integrate it on Slackware will give it a boost. This will be included on Slackware?

Third question: why microcode ctl is not shipped by default with Slackware (I should install it via SBo)? Actually also Debian ships microcode ctl in the installation process for bugged CPU.

Thank you in advance.

Well I am currently using the 6.6.12 kernel on Slackware 15 as the default 5.15.19 wouldn't startx with my new Dell Vostro desktop with an i5 12400 cpu.

Anways, I had been using the 6.6.12 kernel compiled with the ".config" from the current kernel that is the "huge" kernel. I downloaded the source from kernel.org and compiled with that config and did the make_modules install and everything.

Well I decided to do the same with the 6.6.15 kernel and afterwards X wouldn't start anymore as a regular user and I got errors about my / filesystem being full? No space available? I had about 7 gigs available right before that and didn't install any programs. So i'm wondering what may have happened.

X would start however as root, although I realize you're not supposed to, but it did work.

So why wouldn't it work as my normal user account? ... As normal user it also said something about ... no Xauthority found and no .serverauth.. found or something.

After I compiled the 6.6.15 kernel I copied over the kernel to /boot , updated grub, etc. I had the modules under /lib/modules/6.6.15 and did the "mkinitrd -c -k6.6.15 -o initrd-6.6.15.gz" command etc.

Anyways, luckily I had /home on a separate partition and just reinstalled Slackware and then recompiled the 6.6.12 kernel and now I'm all back and everything is good.

I'm wondering what I did wrong though that screwed up my system. I'm kind of afraid to upgrade to the 6.6.15 kernel now.

I think the biggest thing was that df -h was reporting my / directory as being full when I hadn't installed anything. How could it be full? Also, programs that needed to write would fail with "no space available" etc, so maybe it was full.

But why would my filesystem be full if I don't install any programs to the / directory? My logs in /var/log were only a few megabytes so it couldn't have been the logs. I have a 25 gig partition for / and never install any programs and have about 7.5 gigs free on the / partition.

The only thing I DID do a week ago was use "slackpkg" for the first time and upgraded a lot of the stuff. Maybe that did something? ....

I usually leave my computer on so I rarely see the login screen. Anyways, Ive always just did the default "startx" which is how Slackware comes by default.

Is there a case to be made for leaving things this way or should I be booting to a grahical login screen?

Thanks

It happens kind of randomly as far as I can tell. For example, it can sleep all night (I have KDE shut it off after 5 minutes of no use) and I shake the mouse and it wakes up. But two times now, I've come home and shook the mouse, pressed the power button on and off to no avail. I leave my computer on.

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What did work, was I disconnected the power cord and reconnected it tonight and it came on. I'm wondering if it's my new computer or linux or Slackware? My new computer is a Dell desktop with an i5 12400 cpu, 16 gig ram, etc.

It never happened on my old computer that also ran Slackware 15. My old computer was an asus p8p67 mobo, i5 2500k cpu, 8 gigs ram.

I'm running the 6.6 kernel though on the Dell as X wouldn't start with the default 5.15.19 kernel. I had to upgrade as the older kernel didn't support the onboard video on my 15 12400 cpu I guess. The 6.6 kernel works. and on my other computer I was running the 6.3.10 kernel. I'm not sure if it's the kernel. I don't think it would be a Slackware problem itself....

Hello, I am new to Slackware, after installing everything works fine until I run upgrade-all. When I reboot after upgrading and run startx I receive the following error:

auth: file /root/.serverauth.3433 does not exist

My pc is running AMD Ryzen 7 3700x, Radeon RX6650, MSI B350, 16Gb RAM. I am on Slackware64 15.0

I feel like I am doing something wrong during the upgrade like writing over the config files, but I follow what it says in the docs.

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Thanks!

I had to press the power button a few times on the back to finally wake it up. I thought it had finally died after 15 years of use.

It's a Samsung 27 inch led. Anyways, it finally came on , but I've always just shook the mouse to awaken it.

I'm running Slackware 15 with the 6.6.13 kernel.

Is this something to do with the kernel you think or kde?

It hasn't done it since, but im wondering if itll happen again after a longer sleep. ...

slack64 v15

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if it's plugged in at boot it mounts as a /dev/nvmeX (but breaks the boot process probably due to me not tailoring grub right yet). If I hot plug it after boot it's merely recognized in dmesg but doesnt populate /dev/nvme*. tried with stock kernel, updated kernel, and self compiled 6.6. I didn't have much luck seeing it in whatever nvme tools i could manage to find poking around the tree

this little air-cooled box has two early thunderbolt3 ports

it hot plugs fine as a /dev/sdX (but limited to usb3.x speeds) if i use a typeA to a typeC cable coming off the usb3.2port on a thunderbolt4 hub i have hanging off of it. the thunderbolt 3/4->thunderbolt 2->firewire->audiointerface works great.

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i tried flipping the cable ;-)

I think this is my first install on a pure UEFI machine and I sadly had to abandon lilo/elilo. Other than that, I managed to finally get the hang of grub and everything boots; so I compiled a fresh 6.6.14 lazily using "make oldconfig" (while holding down the enter key), and it runs. I seem to recall in the past I usually had to install or compile a zillion libraries to really do it right-- but that was the kernel 2.x decades.

Did I miss anything? Is 6.6.x OK to just drop right in from a blank slack15.0 after a slackpkg update/upgrade?

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30 years sure flies

I have Slackware 15 running and run iptables and ip6tables.

I just leave my computer (desktop ) on 24/7 and never shut it really.

Is that OK?

It's been up over a year now.