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swisstux

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Registered: 2009-04-16

Posts: 2

Slim doesn't works but LXDE is ok

Hello (and sorry for my english )

I installed today arch linux on my laptop. At the beginning, everything was ok, slim  worked fine. After playing with the policykit issue (see "I won the struggle against hal and policykit": http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=65070 )and installing the networkmanager (both are working now), slim doesn't works any more - I get a black screen with no mouse and nothing. I think that the problem is slim itself, because if I tipe "startx" from the commandline as normal user (after having killed X as root) lxde starts and everything works. I tried to reinstall slim but it doesn't works.
I don't know which files to post, so here are two of them

[swisstux@inspiron ~]$ cat .xinitrc 
exec ck-launch-session startlxde
[swisstux@inspiron ~]$ cat /etc/rc.conf 
...
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng polkitparser hal @cpufreq @laptop-mode @networkmanager @crond @alsa @slim)
...

Zariel

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Registered: 2008-10-07

Posts: 446

Re: Slim doesn't works but LXDE is ok

whats the output of slim when started from the console?

swisstux

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Registered: 2009-04-16

Posts: 2

Re: Slim doesn't works but LXDE is ok

it says only this:
slim: Stale lockfile found, removing it

it is a bit slow (too slow, on another PC it is 10 times faster), but it works if I start it from the command line. just on boot it doesn't works.

edit: here is the log of slim starting at boot and at the end the log of slim starting from the shell: http://pastebin.com/m4b6fad81
second edit: I removed every "@" from the daemon's list in rc.conf and now it works. but it is still really slow

Last edited by swisstux (2009-04-16 17:53:25)