Slim (inittab method) - meant to behave like this?

dan653 · 2008-10-07 12:30:57

following this guide on the wiki (including editing gub to boot to run-level 5) i've installed and configured slim to act as my login manager...

wiki: adding a login manager

trouble is, when booting it first displays a text-based login for a few seconds, then the screen flashes black (like when starting X, changing screen resolution) and displays slim. is it suposed to work like this? (i thought doing this would hide/replace the text login)

/boot/grub/menu.lst wrote:

# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/74bde879-1fb3-40aa-a196-8e6dff566ade resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/50e34262-bb32-4bae-bda9-af1ce956273c vga=773 ro 5
initrd /kernel26.img

/etc/inittab wrote:

id:5:initdefault:
rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p
# -8 options fixes umlauts problem on login
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/6 linux
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null

moljac024 · 2008-10-07 12:45:33

That's just SliM's epic slowness in starting up

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dan653 · 2008-10-07 12:53:03

so would i be right in saying scrap the inittab method and put @slim in daemons section of my /etc/rc.conf?

Last edited by dan653 (2008-10-07 12:53:21)

koch · 2008-10-07 13:00:49

dan653 wrote:

trouble is, when booting it first displays a text-based login for a few seconds, then the screen flashes black (like when starting X, changing screen resolution) and displays slim.

same here but the text-login is shown for about 1 second. i don't worry about that.

dan653 · 2008-10-07 13:04:09

arch is just too fast for its good i guess

Last edited by dan653 (2008-10-07 13:04:26)

moljac024 · 2008-10-07 13:05:13

dan653 wrote:

so would i be right in saying scrap the inittab method and put @slim in daemons section of my /etc/rc.conf?

Only if you don't need Slim when you logout. Try and see.

monstermudder78 · 2008-10-07 15:06:51

moljac024 wrote:

dan653 wrote:
so would i be right in saying scrap the inittab method and put @slim in daemons section of my /etc/rc.conf?
Only if you don't need Slim when you logout. Try and see.

Well, I just installed slim yesterday, and when I logout it takes +-20 seconds for the login screen to come back up (I am using the inittab method). Is this the norm?

Last edited by monstermudder78 (2008-10-07 15:07:22)

dan653 · 2008-10-07 15:25:42

mine takes about 4-5 seconds on my laptop (see sig.), whats your machines spec? i think it also depends on how light your arch install is (the amount of stuff its initialising )

bgc1954 · 2008-10-07 15:34:23

Yeah, that's just the way slim is. See: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31413
Apparently slim just starts slow normally, but there are some things suggested in the post. Haven't tried any but I usually don't logout to slim so I'm not concerned right now. Using e17 shutdown or reboot mostly.

moljac024 · 2008-10-07 15:45:47

Yup. SliM is slow. GDM will most likely be faster for you (and more feature packed )

But when you're ready, the best thing to do is to say goodbye to all the display managers and use the plain old CLI login

monstermudder78 · 2008-10-07 15:48:41

@dan: Its a 3.06ghz p4, only 512mb ram, but my arch intall is fairly minimal. What sort of things would Slim be initializing between the time I log out from Openbox and when the Slim screen comes up? Slim comes up within a couple of seconds on the initial boot, and without Slim I can logout to the command line and log back in in seconds. The only thing that I changed was Slim and it just seems to hang for some reason.

@bgc1954: I had read through that page earlier and was hoping that maybe someone had stumbled across a fix by now. I missed the part at the end of the thread saying it is possibly a hardware issue, that sucks, oh well.

moljac024 wrote:

Yup. SliM is slow. GDM will most likely be faster for you (and more feature packed )
But when you're ready, the best thing to do is to say goodbye to all the display managers and use the plain old CLI login

That was where I started out yesterday, and where I sure I will end up today. There is something to be said for simplicity.

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warriant · 2008-10-30 01:42:32

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