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#1 2013-02-23 17:14:27

cezarrangel
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(solved) boot trouble with graphical mode

Hi. After I have managed to install the whole system on /dev/sda5 (/) and /dev/sda6 (/home) I cannot access graphical mode. I have installed gnome and gdm.

Decompressing linux...parsing elf...done
booting the kernel.
boobt: Superblock last mount time in the future.

(by less than a day, probably due to the hardware clock being incorrect1y set ) Fixed.
boot:Superblock last write time in the future
(by less than a day, probably due to hardware clock being incorrect1y)  FIXED

boot: clean 136515/2334720 files, 1045204/9323716 blocks
[ 4.742923] microcode: failed to load file amd-ucode/microcode_amd.bin
systemd[-fsck[280]: /dev/sda6:clean, 15/3170304 files , 25021/12668348 blocks

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#2 2013-02-23 17:31:16

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Re: (solved) boot trouble with graphical mode

This doesn't say anything. Are you able to boot the system into the shell?

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#3 2013-02-23 21:49:14

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Re: (solved) boot trouble with graphical mode

thanks s1ln7m4s7r for your answer. that message I have posted comes when I chose, on the grub menu, the option that leads to arch linux on sda5. the graphic mode does not start even though the decompressing linux starts (what happens when you make a choice using the grub menu). before I could boot the system into the shell. but then I finished the installation by installing gdm and gnome. so when I boot it is as if the graphic mode will start but it does not go ahead and that message comes

if necessary I can mount the partition sda5 on the mnt directory of one of the other linux systems I have on the same HD

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#4 2013-02-23 23:08:05

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Re: (solved) boot trouble with graphical mode

In grub's menu, edit the kernel command line:
1. remove "quiet" if it is there;
2. add

systemd.unit=multi-user.target

Then continue booting to see if you can boot to a shell. If that doesn't work, try

systemd.unit=rescue.target

instead.


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#5 2013-02-23 23:12:51

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Re: (solved) boot trouble with graphical mode

Are you able to get to tty2 after systemd-fsck appears? If so, use journalctl to see why gdm isn't launching (it's probably an X misconfiguration/lack of drivers). Either that, or you forgot to enable gdm.


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#6 2013-02-23 23:14:57

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Re: (solved) boot trouble with graphical mode

It doesn't seem to be getting as far as fscking /dev/sda5, though, which is where the OP said Arch was installed. Maybe a problem in fstab?


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#7 2013-02-23 23:20:37

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Re: (solved) boot trouble with graphical mode

Isn't "boot: clean 136515/2334720 files, 1045204/9323716 blocks" reporting on /? I have a btrfs root, so it's been a while since I've seen these fsck messages. tongue


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#8 2013-02-24 00:12:10

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Re: (solved) boot trouble with graphical mode

thanks cfr and wormzy: ok,cfr now I can boot to a shell

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#9 2013-02-24 00:26:51

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Re: (solved) boot trouble with graphical mode

WorMzy wrote:

Isn't "boot: clean 136515/2334720 files, 1045204/9323716 blocks" reporting on /? I have a btrfs root, so it's been a while since I've seen these fsck messages. tongue

I'm not sure but you could well be right. I thought the "boot:" meant that it was for a separate boot partition but I'm altogether unsure. And I guess this doesn't get recorded anywhere for / since journald isn't running at that point. (Also / is on an lvm for me which probably changes the precise message in any case.)

@cezarrangel,
OK. So now use WorMzy's advice to figure out why gdm isn't starting. Ignore what I said about fstab. If you are booting to an ordinary shell, WorMzy is onto the issue - not me.

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#10 2013-02-24 00:45:00

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Re: (solved) boot trouble with graphical mode

I take advantage of it to reinstall gnome and during the process there are messages that show problems with d-bus daemon such as:

gconf-warning client failed to connect to the d-bus daemon
unable to autolaunch a dbus - daemon without a $Display for X11

I hope these messages help to understand what is preventing the graphical mode to be launched

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#11 2013-02-24 01:55:27

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Re: (solved) boot trouble with graphical mode

Well, I think I have solved it: I had installed #pacman -S nvidia-utilis before. so no I installed #pacman -S nvidia. after that I have rebooted here there is the graphical mode. and it is perfect! now I have arch with gnome. I thank you two : )

BUT there is still 2 "problems"1)I cannot log in as root anymore. I do not know what has happened with the password. How can I recover the root password? 2)it is my first time with gnome on arch ( I always use kde) and gnome is very different now! so I am facing problem with the flashplugin

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#12 2013-02-24 02:47:48

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Re: (solved) boot trouble with graphical mode

You can't login as root on a tty or you can't login as root using gdm? (I don't know whether gdm allows this as I don't use gnome and wouldn't have tried this anyway.)

If you really need to reset the root password and have not set up sudo for your ordinary user, you can chroot from the live media and change root's password, I think.

I suggest you start a new thread for the flashplugin issue *if* you still have the issue after reading the wiki pages relevant for gnome etc. But you will need to explain the problem and what you have tried to do to solve it. Obviously people won't be able to help you if you just say you have some unspecified problem with it.


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#13 2013-02-24 02:56:58

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Re: (solved) boot trouble with graphical mode

you can't login with root in gdm, at least not out-of-box. You should have created a normal user account before, in shell.

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#14 2013-02-24 03:00:50

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Re: (solved) boot trouble with graphical mode

thanks cfr (also for the suggestion) but I have solved it: I have used the suggestion you gave above. so I edited the grub menu and added

silent init=/bin/bash

than into the shell 1)#mount -o remount rw / 2)#passwd and solved the issue concerning the root passwd

concerning the flash issue, as the system is a 64 bits one I will have to install lib32-flashplugin from AUR

But I will be aware about new threads : D

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#15 2013-02-24 03:03:31

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Re: (solved) boot trouble with graphical mode

Open a new tty with "ctrl+alt+F2". Login in shell as root, and create a regular user.

useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/bash $username
passwd $username

You can install "sudo", to be able to give administrative rights to your user, by running EDITOR=nano visudo and uncommenting the line # %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL/%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

Then reboot the system and you will be able to login your user.

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#16 2013-02-24 03:07:01

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Re: (solved) boot trouble with graphical mode

About flashplugin,  what is your internet browser? Is it epiphany??? If so do:

sudo pacman -Syu --needed --noconfirm epiphany epiphany-extensions flashplugin icedtea-web-java7 nspluginwrapper
sudo nspluginwrapper -v -n -a -i

You will have flash and java running.

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#17 2013-02-24 03:20:32

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Re: (solved) boot trouble with graphical mode

thanks s1ln7m4s7r

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