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irishcereal

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Registered: 2010-12-22

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New Arch Installation, hung up on auto boot to XDM

I just started a new Arch installation on one of my older boxes. Everything has gone super amazingly, up until trying to boot into a login manager. I tried XDM and GDM.

I'm using XFCE as my Desktop Environment. It runs perfectly when I start it from the command line. I changed my inittab to auto boot into level 5. I even tried doing a telinit 5 and that did nothing. But when I do startxfce4 it runs flawlessly. I changed the bottom of the inittab to auto boot into XDM as well.

I have added hal, dbus, and even xdm into my DAEMONS. I am at a complete loss as what to try next. Maybe you guys can help?

Thanks!

Mr Green

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Registered: 2003-12-21

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Re: New Arch Installation, hung up on auto boot to XDM

Can you post your deamons line in rc.conf and inittab

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irishcereal

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Registered: 2010-12-22

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Re: New Arch Installation, hung up on auto boot to XDM

Sure thing!

Daemons

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus hal network netfs crond xdm)

inittab (stuff I changed)

id:5:initdefault:
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon

Mr Green

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Re: New Arch Installation, hung up on auto boot to XDM

Assume system is up to date after new install....

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irishcereal

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Re: New Arch Installation, hung up on auto boot to XDM

Yeah I ran Pacman -Syu

Mr Green

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Re: New Arch Installation, hung up on auto boot to XDM

Give slim a go see if that makes any difference

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tomk

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Re: New Arch Installation, hung up on auto boot to XDM

Use inittab OR rc.conf DAEMONS - not both.

What happens if you boot to cli, login as root, and run xdm?

irishcereal

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Registered: 2010-12-22

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Re: New Arch Installation, hung up on auto boot to XDM

Okay so I tried slim, and nothing changed at all. Even when I'm only using inittab OR Daemons.

Except for when I took slim out of the DAEMONS. Thanks tomk! That was it. I just changed inittab to slim and it booted up perfectly.

I gotta say, this community rocks. Thanks everyone!

irishcereal

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Registered: 2010-12-22

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Re: New Arch Installation, hung up on auto boot to XDM

Oh wait...Now when I try to login it says 'Failed to execute login command'

Anyone know what that is?

irishcereal

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Registered: 2010-12-22

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Re: New Arch Installation, hung up on auto boot to XDM

Nevermind! Google is my friend.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=53685