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arch0r

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From: From the Chron-o-John

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 597

eth* dhcpcd not running, kdm_greet cannot open default user face

hai all :>
got 2 questions concering the errors.log:

tail /var/log/errors.log
May  3 10:48:17 midgard dhcpcd[7751]: eth0: dhcpcd not running
May  3 10:53:25 midgard dhcpcd[8160]: eth0: dhcpcd not running
May  3 10:58:05 midgard dhcpcd[8439]: eth0: dhcpcd not running
May  3 11:08:16 midgard dhcpcd[8469]: eth1: timed out
May  3 11:08:17 midgard dhcpcd[9383]: eth0: dhcpcd not running
May  3 13:28:04 midgard kdm_greet[5977]: Cannot open default user face
May  3 13:28:04 midgard dhcpcd[5994]: eth1: dhcpcd not running
May  3 13:28:04 midgard dhcpcd[5995]: eth0: dhcpcd not running
May  3 13:29:55 midgard dhcpcd[6090]: eth1: timed out
May  3 13:29:56 midgard dhcpcd[6249]: eth0: dhcpcd not running

i would like to solve this "errors" or rather strip off this dhcpcd thingy (in a config file) which is obviously started at boot. the network is completely managed by wicd.
i have no clue what "cannot open default user face" means. already googled without any good results :<

best regards,
arch0r

deej

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Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 395

Re: eth* dhcpcd not running, kdm_greet cannot open default user face

Don't worry about 'default user face', it's nothing... you can set it in:

SystemSettings -> Advanced -> Login Manager -> Users

under 'User Images' [ bottom-right ].

I expect when installing you elected to install dhcp [ Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol ] when configuring the network ?
Dhcpcd is its' daemon. You could uninstall dhcp... pacman -R dhcp

I presume you have onboard ethernet and a pci network card ?

Could you disable your onboard ethernet in the systems BIOS ? Then you can concentrate on configuring your card. I've
never used 'wicd' so I can't help you there.

Not much help, I know but better than nothing

Deej

toad

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From: if only I knew

Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 1,775

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Re: eth* dhcpcd not running, kdm_greet cannot open default user face

I get the same problems including a new one:

kdm_greet[5439]: Cannot set locale. Translations will not work.

That was fixed by setting the appropriate locale in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc

Thanks for that fix for

kdm_greet[5977]: Cannot open default user face

I've read all sorts of outlandish stuff thanks to google but this definitely makes the most sense!

I'm also on wicd and get the dhcpcd error:

May 14 20:49:12 archtop dhcpcd: dhcpcd not running

I suppose one could use the -d flag, but it is too late now and I am too tired and will prolly have forgotten all by tomorrow anyway...

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toad

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Registered: 2008-12-22

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Re: eth* dhcpcd not running, kdm_greet cannot open default user face

Argh, the default user face solution worked, but on switching on the computer I noticed that the locale in kdm is wrong again!

That means that kdmrc is written to either on shutdown or on boot. Anybody know what might be causing this?

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Wilfred

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Registered: 2009-05-19

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Re: eth* dhcpcd not running, kdm_greet cannot open default user face

I've already set kdmrc as follows:

[X-*-Greeter]
# ...snip...
Language=en_GB

and I'm still getting the locale error. Any ideas?

toad

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Re: eth* dhcpcd not running, kdm_greet cannot open default user face

Seems likely that yours was overwritten again, too.

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Wilfred

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Registered: 2009-05-19

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Re: eth* dhcpcd not running, kdm_greet cannot open default user face

OK, I've fixed it. It turns out en_GB wasn't a valid locale. Executing $ locale -a gives C, POSIX, en_GB.utf8 so I needed to set the language in kdmrc to en_GB.utf8.