[SOLVED] - Arch Fresh Install - Errors

Question

I have a few ERRORS from a Fresh Install that I need a bit of help with:
1.  I've created a user (larry) and added myself to audio,lp,optical,wheel,storage,video,power,scanner and inserted the password.
     But when I try to login with user larry and my password, I am unable to login.  (My password is the same as root and I can login
     as root.)  Is there a way to reset my user password without deleting user larry?  I don't want to lose the files I have in /home/larry.
2.  In /var/log/xorg.0.log I have an error displayed:
     (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev"
     I've searched and found that I might also need to use pacman -S xf86-video-fbdev  Do I also need to install this package even though
     I have the xf86-video-intel (i915 Video Driver is used in Debian 6) installed?  Some postings say don't use it as it is SLOW?  I haven't
     a clue????
3.  My .xinitrc in /home/user has startxfce4 enabled, but xfce never starts.  But, I can ONLY login as root, and that might be causing the
     problem by not using /home/larry/.xinitrc  I've only got two partitions on my USB Flash Drive and they are / (1.95 Gig) and also
     /home (1.96 Gig).  I'd like to get Arch running from USB Flash Drive before I install on a Hard Drive.  If I am logged in as root, how can
     I get xfce to start
4.  I installed the ttf-dejavu fonts with pacman -S ttf-dejavu   I got an error stating: mkfontscale:  /usr/lib/libz.so.1 Version ZLIB_1.2.5.2 NOT FOUND!
     How do I correct this missing lib problem?
I've got my Wifi working via a small script, so far I've kept fixing the errors/problems and I'm keeping a log so I can duplicate the process.
I just need a bit of help getting the above issues solved.  When XFCE finally runs as my Desktop I'll be happy.
Thanks.
Larry
Last edited by lkraemer (2012-02-21 15:16:34)

Answer 1

1) Congrats.
2) You can remove it, but I don't think it should matter; it will likely only take up a bit of space.
3) Glad that's working.  This means X is set up well.  If you do find yourself in the TWM environment again, the default is pretty vanilla.  To exit I believe you just type "exit" into each terminal, when there are no running 'clients' remaining, TWM and X quit.  Alternately, you can Ctrl-Atl-F1 to get to tty1 (or where ever you ran startx/xinit from) and hit Ctrl-C to force-quit X.
Other) X can be fairly verbose.  I don't think those warnings are anything to be concerned with, unless they seem related to a feature you are lacking.  It is common for programs to try one feature and fall-back on another if it is not available.  I suspect the gtk warning is just this sort.  I get a boatload of gtk warnings whenever I run many gui apps, but everything works fine.  The thunar error is likely because you don't have one of the addons installed.  Thunar has many bells and whistles that can be added, and it may be checking for all of them when it starts.  The warning says one of them is not there.  If it's a feature you want, check out the thunar wiki's and install the required packages - otherwise, I suspect it's safe to ignore.
Do you have Xfce up and running?