[Solved] "slim: failed to execute login command" after awesomewm updat

Question

Hi,
i updated some weeks ago via pacman -Syu, where also awesome wm was updated from 3.4.* to 3.5.* so I updated my rc.lua as it is told on their wiki, but i cant login with my rc.lua anymore i got the failed to execute login command error from slime. If i use the shipped efault rc.lua it works fine, can someone help me to figure out whats wrong with my rc.lua?
-- Standard awesome library
local gears = require("gears")
local awful = require("awful")
awful.rules = require("awful.rules")
require("awful.autofocus")
-- Widget and layout library
local wibox = require("wibox")
-- Theme handling library
local beautiful = require("beautiful")
-- Notification library
local naughty = require("naughty")
local menubar = require("menubar")
local vicious = require("vicious")
function fullscreens(c)
awful.client.floating.toggle(c)
if awful.client.floating.get(c) then
local clientX = screen[1].workarea.x
local clientY = screen[1].workarea.y
local clientWidth = 0
-- look at http://www.rpm.org/api/4.4.2.2/llimits_8h-source.html
local clientHeight = 2147483640
for s = 1, screen.count() do
clientHeight = math.min(clientHeight, screen[s].workarea.height)
clientWidth = clientWidth + screen[s].workarea.width
end
local t = c:geometry({x = clientX, y = clientY, width = clientWidth, height = clientHeight})
else
--apply the rules to this client so he can return to the right tag if there is a rule for that.
awful.rules.apply(c)
end
-- focus our client
client.focus = c
end
-- {{{ Error handling
-- Check if awesome encountered an error during startup and fell back to
-- another config (This code will only ever execute for the fallback config)
if awesome.startup_errors then
naughty.notify({ preset = naughty.config.presets.critical,
title = "Oops, there were errors during startup!",
text = awesome.startup_errors })
end
-- Handle runtime errors after startup
do
local in_error = false
awesome.connect_signal("debug::error", function (err)
-- Make sure we don't go into an endless error loop
if in_error then return end
in_error = true
naughty.notify({ preset = naughty.config.presets.critical,
title = "Oops, an error happened!",
text = err })
in_error = false
end)
end
-- {{{ Variable definitions
-- Themes define colours, icons, and wallpapers
-- beautiful.init("/home/kili/Repositories/awesome-themes/arch/theme.lua")
beautiful.init("/usr/share/awesome/themes/default/theme.lua")
-- This is used later as the default terminal and editor to run.
terminal = "urxvt"
editor = os.getenv("EDITOR") or "nano"
editor_cmd = terminal .. " -e " .. editor
-- Default modkey.
-- Usually, Mod4 is the key with a logo between Control and Alt.
-- If you do not like this or do not have such a key,
-- I suggest you to remap Mod4 to another key using xmodmap or other tools.
-- However, you can use another modifier like Mod1, but it may interact with others.
modkey = "Mod4"
-- Table of layouts to cover with awful.layout.inc, order matters.
layouts =
awful.layout.suit.tile,
awful.layout.suit.tile.left,
awful.layout.suit.tile.bottom,
awful.layout.suit.tile.top,
awful.layout.suit.floating,
awful.layout.suit.fair,
awful.layout.suit.fair.horizontal,
awful.layout.suit.spiral,
awful.layout.suit.spiral.dwindle,
awful.layout.suit.max,
awful.layout.suit.max.fullscreen,
awful.layout.suit.magnifier
-- {{{ Tags
-- Define a tag table which hold all screen tags.
tags = {}
for s = 1, screen.count() do
-- Each screen has its own tag table.
tags[s] = awful.tag({ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5}, s, layouts[1])
end
-- {{{ Menu
-- Create a laucher widget and a main menu
myawesomemenu = {
{ "manual", terminal .. " -e man awesome" },
{ "edit config", editor_cmd .. " " .. awesome.conffile },
{ "restart", awesome.restart },
{ "quit", awesome.quit }
mymainmenu = awful.menu({ items = { { "awesome", myawesomemenu, beautiful.awesome_icon },
{ "open terminal", terminal }
mylauncher = awful.widget.launcher({ image = beautiful.awesome_icon, menu = mymainmenu })
-- {{{ Wibox
-- Create a textclock widget
batwidget = wibox.widget.textbox()
vicious.register(batwidget, vicious.widgets.bat,
function(widget,args)
local formatstring = " Bat: "..args[1]..args[2] .."%".. " "..args[3] .. " "
if args[2] <= 25 and args[1] == "-" then
return "<span color=\"red\">".. formatstring .. "</span>"
end
return formatstring
end, 60, "BAT0")
netwidgetETH = wibox.widget.textbox()
netwidgetWIFI = wibox.widget.textbox()
vicious.register(netwidgetETH, vicious.widgets.net, ' eth0:<span color="#CC9393">${eth0 down_kb}</span> <span color="#7F9F7F">${eth0 up_kb}</span>', 3)
vicious.register(netwidgetWIFI, vicious.widgets.net,' wlan0:<span color="#CC9393">${wlan0 down_kb}</span> <span color="#7F9F7F">${wlan0 up_kb}</span>', 3)
menubar.utils.terminal = terminal
mytextclock = awful.widget.textclock()--{ align = "right" })
-- Create a systray
mysystray = wibox.widget.systray()
-- Create a wibox for each screen and add it
mywibox = {}
mypromptbox = {}
mylayoutbox = {}
mytaglist = {}
mytaglist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, awful.tag.viewonly),
awful.button({ modkey }, 1, awful.client.movetotag),
awful.button({ }, 3, awful.tag.viewtoggle),
awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.client.toggletag),
awful.button({ }, 4, function(t) awful.tag.viewnext(aweful.tag.getscreen(t)) end),
awful.button({ }, 5, function(t) awful.tag.viewprev(aweful.tag.getscreen(t)) end)
mytasklist = {}
mytasklist.buttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function (c)
if c == client.focus then
c.minimized = true
else
c.minimized = false
if not c:isvisible() then
awful.tag.viewonly(c:tags()[1])
end
-- This will also un-minimize
-- the client, if needed
client.focus = c
c:raise()
end
end),
awful.button({ }, 3, function ()
if instance then
instance:hide()
instance = nil
else
instance = awful.menu.clients({ width=250 })
end
end),
awful.button({ }, 4, function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx(1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.button({ }, 5, function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end))
for s = 1, screen.count() do
-- Create a promptbox for each screen
mypromptbox[s] = awful.widget.prompt()--{ layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.leftright })
-- Create an imagebox widget which will contains an icon indicating which layout we're using.
-- We need one layoutbox per screen.
mylayoutbox[s] = awful.widget.layoutbox(s)
mylayoutbox[s]:buttons(awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.button({ }, 3, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),
awful.button({ }, 4, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.button({ }, 5, function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end)))
-- Create a taglist widget
mytaglist[s] = awful.widget.taglist(s, awful.widget.taglist.filter.all, mytaglist.buttons)
-- Create a tasklist widget
mytasklist[s] = awful.widget.tasklist(s, awful.widget.tasklist.filter.currenttags, mytasklist.buttons)
-- Create the wibox
mywibox[s] = awful.wibox({ position = "top", screen = s })
-- Widgets that are aligned to the left
local left_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
left_layout:add(mylauncher)
left_layout:add(mytaglist[s])
left_layout:add(mypromptbox[s])
-- Widgets that are aligned to the right
local right_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
if s == 1 then right_layout:add(wibox.widget.systray()) end
right_layout:add(netwidgetWIFI)
right_layout:add(netwidgetETH)
right_layout:add(batwidget)
right_layout:add(mytextclock)
right_layout:add(mylayoutbox[s])
-- Now bring it all together (with the tasklist in the middle)
local layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal()
layout:set_left(left_layout)
layout:set_middle(mytasklist[s])
layout:set_right(right_layout)
mywibox[s]:set_widget(layout)
-- Add widgets to the wibox - order matters
--mywibox[s].widgets = {
-- mylauncher,
-- mytaglist[s],
-- mypromptbox[s],
--layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.leftright
-- mylayoutbox[s],
-- mytextclock,
-- batwidget,
-- netwidgetETH,
-- netwidgetWIFI,
-- s == 1 and mysystray or nil,
-- mytasklist[s],
-- layout = awful.widget.layout.horizontal.rightleft
end
-- {{{ Mouse bindings
root.buttons(awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 3, function () mymainmenu:toggle() end),
awful.button({ }, 4, awful.tag.viewnext),
awful.button({ }, 5, awful.tag.viewprev)
-- {{{ Key bindings
globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Left", awful.tag.viewprev ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Right", awful.tag.viewnext ),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Escape", awful.tag.history.restore),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "j",
function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx( 1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "k",
function ()
awful.client.focus.byidx(-1)
if client.focus then client.focus:raise() end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "w", function () mymainmenu:show() end),
-- Layout manipulation
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "j", function () awful.client.swap.byidx( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "k", function () awful.client.swap.byidx( -1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "j", function () awful.screen.focus_relative( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "k", function () awful.screen.focus_relative(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "u", awful.client.urgent.jumpto),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Tab",
function ()
awful.client.focus.history.previous()
if client.focus then
client.focus:raise()
end
end),
-- Standard program
awful.key({ modkey, }, "Return", function () awful.util.spawn(terminal) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "r", awesome.restart),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "q", awesome.quit),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "l", function () awful.tag.incmwfact( 0.05) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "h", function () awful.tag.incmwfact(-0.05) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "h", function () awful.tag.incnmaster( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "l", function () awful.tag.incnmaster(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "h", function () awful.tag.incncol( 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "l", function () awful.tag.incncol(-1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "space", function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, 1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "space", function () awful.layout.inc(layouts, -1) end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "n", awful.client.restore),
-- Prompt
awful.key({ modkey }, "r", function () mypromptbox[mouse.screen]:run() end),
awful.key({ modkey }, "x",
function ()
awful.prompt.run({ prompt = "Run Lua code: " },
mypromptbox[mouse.screen].widget,
awful.util.eval, nil,
awful.util.getdir("cache") .. "/history_eval")
end),
-- Multimedia
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioLowerVolume", function () awful.util.spawn("amixer -q sset Master 2dB-") end),
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioRaiseVolume", function () awful.util.spawn("amixer -q sset Master 2dB+") end),
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioNext",function () awful.util.spawn( "mocp -f" ) end),
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioPrev",function () awful.util.spawn( "mocp -r" ) end),
awful.key({ }, "XF86AudioPlay",function () awful.util.spawn( "mocp -G" ) end),
awful.key({ }, "Print", function () awful.util.spawn("ksnapshot") end),
awful.key({ }, "", function () awful.util.spawn("slimlock") end)
clientkeys = awful.util.table.join(
awful.key({ modkey, }, "f", function (c) c.fullscreen = not c.fullscreen end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "c", function (c) c:kill() end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "space", awful.client.floating.toggle ),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "Return", function (c) c:swap(awful.client.getmaster()) end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "o", awful.client.movetoscreen ),
-- awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "r", function (c) c:redraw() end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "t", function (c) c.ontop = not c.ontop end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "n",
function (c)
-- The client currently has the input focus, so it cannot be
-- minimized, since minimized clients can't have the focus.
c.minimized = true
end),
awful.key({ modkey, }, "m",
function (c)
c.maximized_horizontal = not c.maximized_horizontal
c.maximized_vertical = not c.maximized_vertical
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "f", fullscreens)
-- Compute the maximum number of digit we need, limited to 9
keynumber = 0
for s = 1, screen.count() do
keynumber = math.min(9, math.max(#tags[s], keynumber))
end
-- Bind all key numbers to tags.
-- Be careful: we use keycodes to make it works on any keyboard layout.
-- This should map on the top row of your keyboard, usually 1 to 9.
for i = 1, keynumber do
globalkeys = awful.util.table.join(globalkeys,
awful.key({ modkey }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
local screen = mouse.screen
if tags[screen][i] then
awful.tag.viewonly(tags[screen][i])
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
local screen = mouse.screen
if tags[screen][i] then
awful.tag.viewtoggle(tags[screen][i])
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
if client.focus and tags[client.focus.screen][i] then
awful.client.movetotag(tags[client.focus.screen][i])
end
end),
awful.key({ modkey, "Control", "Shift" }, "#" .. i + 9,
function ()
if client.focus and tags[client.focus.screen][i] then
awful.client.toggletag(tags[client.focus.screen][i])
end
end))
end
clientbuttons = awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function (c) client.focus = c; c:raise() end),
awful.button({ modkey }, 1, awful.mouse.client.move),
awful.button({ modkey }, 3, awful.mouse.client.resize))
-- Set keys
root.keys(globalkeys)
-- Set Firefox to always map on tags number 2 of screen 1.
-- { rule = { class = "Firefox" },
-- properties = { tag = tags[1][2] } },
-- {{{ Rules
if screen.count() > 1 then
awful.rules.rules = {
-- All clients will match this rule.
{ rule = { },
properties = { border_width = beautiful.border_width,
-- border_color = beautiful.border_normal,
focus = true,
keys = clientkeys,
buttons = clientbuttons } },
{ rule = { class = "MPlayer" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "gimp" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "Xdialog" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "Firefox" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][1] } },
{ rule = { name = "Thunderbird" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][2] } },
{ rule = { instance = "plugin-container" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "Luakit" },
properties = { floating = true } }
else
awful.rules.rules = {
-- All clients will match this rule.
{ rule = { },
properties = { border_width = beautiful.border_width,
-- border_color = beautiful.border_normal,
focus = true,
keys = clientkeys,
buttons = clientbuttons } },
{ rule = { class = "MPlayer" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "gimp" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "Firefox" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][2] } },
{ rule = { name = "Thunderbird" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][3] } },
{ rule = { instance = "plugin-container" },
properties = { floating = true, fullscreen = true } },
{ rule = { class = "Dolphin" },
properties = { floating = false, fullscreen = false, tag = tags[1][4] } },
{ rule = { class = "Luakit" },
properties = { floating = true } },
{ rule = { class = "Pidgin" },
properties = { tag = tags[1][5] } }
end
-- {{{ Signals
-- Signal function to execute when a new client appears.
client.connect_signal("manage", function (c, startup)
-- Add a titlebar
-- awful.titlebar.add(c, { modkey = modkey })
-- Enable sloppy focus
c:connect_signal("mouse::enter", function(c)
if awful.layout.get(c.screen) ~= awful.layout.suit.magnifier
and awful.client.focus.filter(c) then
client.focus = c
end
end)
if not startup then
-- Set the windows at the slave,
-- i.e. put it at the end of others instead of setting it master.
-- awful.client.setslave(c)
-- Put windows in a smart way, only if they does not set an initial position.
if not c.size_hints.user_position and not c.size_hints.program_position then
awful.placement.no_overlap(c)
awful.placement.no_offscreen(c)
end
end
local titlebars_enabled = false
if titlebars_enabled and (c.type == "normal" or c.type == "dialog") then
-- Widgets that are aligned to the left
local left_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
left_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.iconwidget(c))
-- Widgets that are aligned to the right
local right_layout = wibox.layout.fixed.horizontal()
right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.floatingbutton(c))
right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.maximizedbutton(c))
right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.stickybutton(c))
right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.ontopbutton(c))
right_layout:add(awful.titlebar.widget.closebutton(c))
-- The title goes in the middle
local title = awful.titlebar.widget.titlewidget(c)
title:buttons(awful.util.table.join(
awful.button({ }, 1, function()
client.focus = c
c:raise()
awful.mouse.client.move(c)
end),
awful.button({ }, 3, function()
client.focus = c
c:raise()
awful.mouse.client.resize(c)
end)
-- Now bring it all together
local layout = wibox.layout.align.horizontal()
layout:set_left(left_layout)
layout:set_right(right_layout)
layout:set_middle(title)
awful.titlebar(c):set_widget(layout)
end
end)
client.connect_signal("focus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_focus end)
client.connect_signal("unfocus", function(c) c.border_color = beautiful.border_normal end)
Here is also my slime config and my initrc
ls -lisa .xinitrc
3276814 4 -rwxr-xr-x ...
#!/bin/sh
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
wicd-client --tray &
exec awesome #>> ~/.cache/awesome/stdout 2>> ~/.cache/awesome/stderr
# Path, X server and arguments (if needed)
# Note: -xauth $authfile is automatically appended
default_path /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
default_xserver /usr/bin/X
xserver_arguments -nolisten tcp vt07
# Commands for halt, login, etc.
halt_cmd /sbin/shutdown -h now
reboot_cmd /sbin/shutdown -r now
console_cmd /usr/bin/xterm -C -fg white -bg black +sb -T "Console login" -e /bin/sh -c "/bin/cat /etc/issue; exec /bin/login"
#suspend_cmd /usr/sbin/suspend
# Full path to the xauth binary
xauth_path /usr/bin/xauth
# Xauth file for server
authfile /var/run/slim.auth
# Activate numlock when slim starts. Valid values: on|off
numlock on
# Hide the mouse cursor (note: does not work with some WMs).
# Valid values: true|false
# hidecursor false
# This command is executed after a succesful login.
# you can place the %session and %theme variables
# to handle launching of specific commands in .xinitrc
# depending of chosen session and slim theme
# NOTE: if your system does not have bash you need
# to adjust the command according to your preferred shell,
# i.e. for freebsd use:
# login_cmd exec /bin/sh - ~/.xinitrc %session
login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session
# Commands executed when starting and exiting a session.
# They can be used for registering a X11 session with
# sessreg. You can use the %user variable
# sessionstart_cmd some command
# sessionstop_cmd some command
# Start in daemon mode. Valid values: yes | no
# Note that this can be overriden by the command line
# options "-d" and "-nodaemon"
# daemon yes
# Available sessions (first one is the default).
# The current chosen session name is replaced in the login_cmd
# above, so your login command can handle different sessions.
# see the xinitrc.sample file shipped with slim sources
sessions awesome,xfce4,icewm-session,wmaker,blackbox
# Executed when pressing F11 (requires imagemagick)
screenshot_cmd import -window root /slim.png
# welcome message. Available variables: %host, %domain
welcome_msg Welcome to %host
# Session message. Prepended to the session name when pressing F1
# session_msg Session:
# shutdown / reboot messages
shutdown_msg The system is halting...
reboot_msg The system is rebooting...
# default user, leave blank or remove this line
# for avoid pre-loading the username.
default_user kili
# Focus the password field on start when default_user is set
# Set to "yes" to enable this feature
focus_password yes
# Automatically login the default user (without entering
# the password. Set to "yes" to enable this feature
#auto_login no
# current theme, use comma separated list to specify a set to
# randomly choose from
current_theme archlinux-simplyblack
# Lock file
lockfile /var/lock/slim.lock
# Log file
logfile /var/log/slim.log
Thanks in advance!
Edit:
Besides a lot of other errors the problem was the systray. It was created 2 times, now login works again. I figured that out via enabling logging for awesome in the xinitrc again.
Last edited by stubb (2013-01-08 23:20:05)

Answer 1

Hi,
I have the same kind of issue after updated slim from v1.3.4-4 to v1.3.5-1.
see my topic  here :
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=156792
Last edited by cedricl (2013-01-24 17:16:42)