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plutus

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Registered: 2010-03-20

Posts: 44

gdm problem, no login

when loading gdm the system crashes. I use the daeomons method, I've tried using a livecd but I can not modify the rc.local (read only) and I can not access to my data (encrypted folder)

any help?

justl

Member

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2011-08-26

Posts: 19

Re: gdm problem, no login

You can try booting into single user mode. You should than be able to modify your config files / read logs etc.

plutus

Member

Registered: 2010-03-20

Posts: 44

Re: gdm problem, no login

how can I boot in single user mode?

B-80

Member

Registered: 2010-05-05

Posts: 47

Re: gdm problem, no login

Pull gdm off of the daemons list, then you will have to log into arch through the shell. Once you do try:

xinit

See if that works, if it does, type

exit

Into the shell it provides you and it will drop you back into the terminal. Try:

gdm

Which will almost certainly not work, but you can Ctrl-C out of if hopefully and post whatever error messages you got. The output of

dmesg

and

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

will also be very helpful.

ewaller

Administrator

From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,784

Re: gdm problem, no login

how can I boot in single user mode?

While in grub, edit the kernel command line.  Do this by pressing 'e' during the countdown.  Select the kernel line, and press 'e' again.

Append 'single' to the end of the line
press enter, followed by 'b' (for boot)

During the boor process, it will stop and ask for the root password to enter maintenance mode

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