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#1 2010-04-05 06:09:28

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[Solved] Start and stall

When I start up the computer, it runs through the hoops and then just stalls at SLiM. I don't have any type of keyboard or mouse control, and because of that I can't enter and make any sort of changes and whatnot. I've got the ServerFlags part in the xorg.conf file and from what I understand that should be the problem. I've searched for answers, but I think it's about time to just ask the forum.

Help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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#2 2010-04-05 06:55:47

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Re: [Solved] Start and stall

You could take a look at this thread and see if any of the suggestions help, or if any of the diagnostics warrant reporting here.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=653139

If not, you'll need to post some more information: is this something that worked fine and only now has got fux0red or is it a new install? Relevant log files, daemons in /etc/rc.conf, xinitrc, inittab, you get the idea...


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#3 2010-04-05 19:53:39

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Re: [Solved] Start and stall

I tried to start up just now, to try what you said. The computer wont load at all. The last thing that appears is Starting UDev processes (or something like that) and then it blanks out to a screen with just a blinking cursor. Any ideas with that?

Edit

Never mind, it was just taking forever, which is unusual.

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#4 2010-04-05 19:59:33

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Re: [Solved] Start and stall

Follow grey's suggestion in the thread and try and boot into single user mode - then look at your rc.conf, particularly your daemons array.

Post as much information as you can. Is this a new install, or has something broken after you tinkered or upgraded?


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#5 2010-04-05 20:05:33

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Re: [Solved] Start and stall

I'm trying the single user mode now.

It's a new install on this system. And yes, it's a new install. I'm thinking it would just be easier to format and reinstall. All of this only started happening after I installed SLiM.

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Alright. My daemons section looks like this:

DAEMONS=(network syslog-ng hal @netfs @crond @slim)

Also, I don't know why it's taking so long to boot up but when everything else starts to load after three or four minutes there's a bunch of lines that say:

/sys/devices/pci000:00/000:00:1f.2/host/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0 (4904)

And the number on the end goes up for at least thirty lines.

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#6 2010-04-05 20:41:40

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Re: [Solved] Start and stall

So I uninstalled SliM and now I'm thinking that that wasn't the problem. I think it might have been the keyboard and mouse detection in X. I think this because after I uninstalled SLiM and everything, I went and did startx and I couldn't use the mouse nor the keyboard, and this hasn't happened previously.

Is there anyway to see what is automatically detected and set that as the defaults outside of X and then add that into the xorg.conf?

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#7 2010-04-05 20:52:05

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Re: [Solved] Start and stall

Yes - the Beginners' Guide has a section on auto-creating an xorg.conf file.

Configuring xorg wrote:

Standard xorg.conf generation
Advanced users may wish to manually create their own xorg.conf file. You may also use the /usr/bin/Xorg program with the -configure option to generate a basic config file; As root, do:
# Xorg -configure
This will create a config file at /root/xorg.conf.new
Copy the file to /etc/X11/:
# cp /root/xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf

It would also be worth looking at your xorg logs to see exactly what is going on...


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#8 2010-04-05 21:59:04

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Re: [Solved] Start and stall

I did do a Xorg-configure (and copy) first when I first rebooted into the system using the single user mode and it didn't do a thing other than add some more to the xorg.conf.

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#9 2010-04-05 23:15:36

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Re: [Solved] Start and stall

...and your xorg logs? If you want help you need to post more information...

#edit You have dbus installed, right? And xf86-input-evdev as per the Beginners' Guide?

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#10 2010-04-05 23:45:05

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Re: [Solved] Start and stall

Also make sure that hal starts successfully. If so, there should be a file in /var/run/hald.pid with the PID of the currently running hald.

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#11 2010-04-06 03:19:48

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Re: [Solved] Start and stall

jasonwryan wrote:

...and your xorg logs? If you want help you need to post more information...

#edit You have dbus installed, right? And xf86-input-evdev as per the Beginners' Guide?

I would supply it but I have no way of retrieving it from my system to include. What should I be looking for in particular? Also, I do have both dbus and xf86-input-evdev installed.

Surgat_ wrote:

Also make sure that hal starts successfully. If so, there should be a file in /var/run/hald.pid with the PID of the currently running hald.

Hal was starting, but it isn't anymore. When I do:

/etc/rc.d/hal start

It returns with a FAIL.

This is quite hilarious to me considering last night everything was working fine for about  two hours.

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#12 2010-04-06 05:26:46

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Re: [Solved] Start and stall

Alright, so I removed xorg and everything and started back from scratch. Everything is now working fine. I've got X, Fluxbox, and SLiM installed and working. I guess I must have missed a step or something during the process.

Thanks for your help Jason, and you too, Surgat.

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#13 2010-04-06 05:44:21

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Re: [Solved] Start and stall

Excellent news!


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