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HydroDiOxide

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Registered: 2007-10-06

Posts: 99

[SOLVED] Splashy works, GDM won't show up

I've installed splashy using the wiki entry. It works, I can see a 'nice' bootsplash. However, my system won't boot properly anymore. GDM won't show up and removing the splash parameter in my kernel line (grub) doesn't work either. Any ideas how to fix this/ get me back in my system so I can rebuild my initramfs?

Last edited by HydroDiOxide (2008-06-17 08:23:31)

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HydroDiOxide

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Registered: 2007-10-06

Posts: 99

Re: [SOLVED] Splashy works, GDM won't show up

disablehooks=splashy as a kernel parameter doesn't work either. I think the problem is a GDM problem more than a splashy problem. Is there a way to disable the GDM daemon at boottime or something? When a push ctrl-alt-del my system will do a reboot... I'm quite puzzled .

Last edited by HydroDiOxide (2008-05-06 18:55:29)

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HydroDiOxide

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Registered: 2007-10-06

Posts: 99

Re: [SOLVED] Splashy works, GDM won't show up

I found out what the problem was. The splashy install overwrote my rc.conf. I was able to get into another tty and log in and adjust my rc.conf. A note to the maintainer of splashy: maybe it's a good idea to mention that rc.conf will be overwritten and a backup to to rc.conf.pacsave might be a good idea as well!

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tigrmesh

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Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: [SOLVED] Splashy works, GDM won't show up

Put a comment saying that on the splashy AUR page http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10211.  The splashy maintainer probably won't see your suggestion here.

Last edited by tigrmesh (2008-05-06 20:28:33)