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Lukan27

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2012-12-02

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] Arch idle on startup after installing GNOME

Currently I'm playing around with Arch, and I've gotten quite far for now I think. So I decided to take the step to install GNOME, which went well. The problem happened when I tried to make GNOME start up automatically. So I followed the instructions here using systemd with gdm.service. I did that with

systemctl enable gdm.service

as this says/instructed (Enable a unit to be started on bootup:).

Now I'm stuck here, and the terminal won't even prompt. Before this, it only got the the "[...]CPU0: update failed[...]" line.

As you might have noticed it's a virtual machine I'm learning on, but how on earth would one get moving when it won't even let me get a terminal?

Last edited by Lukan27 (2014-07-12 15:10:00)

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RichAustin

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From: Wakefield, Yorkshire, England

Registered: 2011-07-27

Posts: 186

Re: [SOLVED] Arch idle on startup after installing GNOME

Hi

You can get to a terminal using the Control key + Alt key + any of the function keys from F1 to F7, for example Ctrl + Alt + F3. To get back to the original screen use Ctrl + Alt + F7. You can have different sessions in each of the terminals and can tell which one you are in by looking at the top of the screen where it says something like "... ARCH (tty3)".

Richard

Lukan27

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2012-12-02

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Arch idle on startup after installing GNOME

Thanks, that's a definitely a trick for the notebook. I knew I could switch sessions eventually, but not while the machine haven't loaded itself fully.

To the eventual websearchers with the same problem as described above, just switch session as RichAustin says, and then remove the gdm.service again with

systemctl disable gdm.service

and it should start up again with problems.

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