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kansas city shuffle

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Registered: 2015-07-20

Posts: 47

[SOLVED] Using VMWare and LXDE and LXDM stuck on loading

I am trying out VMWare and Arch Linux, and after installing and running: sudo systemctl enable lxdm

The VM is stuck on the loading screen.

starting version 223
[   1/432240] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
/dev/sda1: recovering journal
/dev/sda1: clean, 81612/1310720 files, 760819/5242624 blocks
[  3.626525] piix_smbus 0000:00:07.3 SMBus Host Controller not enabled!
[  4.120795] intel_rapl: no valid rapl domains found in package 0

Is there anyway I can boot into command line and by-pass lxdm to disable lxdm service from automatically loading?

Last edited by kansas city shuffle (2015-08-02 22:46:28)

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Using VMWare and LXDE and LXDM stuck on loading

Yes, use the systemd kernel command line. [1]

In your bootloader, you usually have the option to edit the command line that "boots your kernel" (quotes for stuff you might want to do some research about). What you want is either mask [2] the service (you'll need the exact name) or start a debug shell.

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/software/sys … -line.html
[2] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/three-levels-of-off

kansas city shuffle

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Registered: 2015-07-20

Posts: 47

Re: [SOLVED] Using VMWare and LXDE and LXDM stuck on loading

Yes, use the systemd kernel command line. [1]

In your bootloader, you usually have the option to edit the command line that "boots your kernel" (quotes for stuff you might want to do some research about). What you want is either mask [2] the service (you'll need the exact name) or start a debug shell.

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/software/sys … -line.html
[2] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/three-levels-of-off

Thanks. I went ahead and just wiped the VM and started over.

1) I disabled the errors that were appearing during start-up and put them in a blacklist.cfg file.

error: intel_rapl: no valid rapl domains found in package 0
error: piix4_smbus 0000:00:007.3: Host SMBus controller not enabled!

2) Then set lxdm to run automatically:
sudo systemctl enable lxdm.service

And it was loaded fine without getting stuck now that the errors were dealt with.