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#1 2011-05-29 02:48:14
- Pacopag
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Slim fails to login...how to get command line back?
Man, what a drag. I (seemingly) successfully installed Arch with xfce, which is a huge accomplishment for a guy coming from years of Ubuntu, and avoiding command line and config files every chance he gets.
Anyway, I'm using slim as a display manager, and it fails to login (I am choosing the xfce session). I can't seem to get to a command line so that I can try a different display manager. Google says that Ctrl-Alt-F1 should do the trick, but that just gives me a black screen and sits there. Any help?
Thanks.
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#2 2011-05-29 02:52:42
- jasonwryan
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Re: Slim fails to login...how to get command line back?
You'll need to boot into run level 1: append 1 to your grub line...
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#3 2011-05-29 02:55:36
- Pacopag
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Re: Slim fails to login...how to get command line back?
I'm not sure how to even edit the grub file. It just boots right up to the slim login screen.
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#4 2011-05-29 03:38:34
- karol
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Re: Slim fails to login...how to get command line back?
I'm not sure how to even edit the grub file.
Like this http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/grub-boot- … user-mode/
Does Alt-Ctrl-F2 work?
Last edited by karol (2011-05-29 03:39:49)
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#5 2011-05-29 04:48:08
- octesian
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Re: Slim fails to login...how to get command line back?
If CTRL+ALT+F1 isn't workin, try CTRL+ALT+F2 or F3 etc etc. Make sure /var/lock/ exists. Slim uses this and will not work if the folder doesn't exist. If Slim starts fine and its more of an authentication issue then disregard that.
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