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Kazte

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Registered: 2008-07-10

Posts: 8

Missing shutdown information

Hello guys,

After system upgraded 2 days ago my archlinux doesn't show shutdown information on screen when I reboot/shutdown the system. The only thing on the screen is the login prompt for vc/1, so I tried to switch to other virtual consoles and found the shutdown information is printed to vc/7.
How can I get back my shutting down information? I checked rc.shutdown and found it does nothing to do with this problem. I suspect there could be something wrong with gdm configuration?
Sorry for my English, if anyone understand could you please help?
Thank you!

Best regards,
Kazte

Last edited by Kazte (2008-10-24 05:45:31)

Kazte

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Registered: 2008-07-10

Posts: 8

Re: Missing shutdown information

I just checked the /var/log/user.log, there're something like this after the upgrading:

Oct 24 13:18:25 linuxboy shutdown[7925]: shutting down for system halt
Oct 24 13:21:18 bonobo-activation-server (raven-5590): could not associate with desktop session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-OWaSd5e8Dn: Connection refused

Looks like something wrong with bonobo-activation-server

azleifel

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Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 486

Re: Missing shutdown information

I've been having similar, though not quite so bad, problems with gnome 2.24 and managed to resolve the dbus errors by setting up PolicyKit access for my user.  See http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 38#p440138.

Kazte

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Registered: 2008-07-10

Posts: 8

Re: Missing shutdown information

To azleifel,
I just found out why I'm  having this problem.  Getting vc/1 when shutting down/reboot has nothing to do with the bonob-activation-server connection error recorded in the user.log file. They are 2 different problem.
My getting vc/1 when shutting down is because I added gdm as daemon in the /etc/rc.conf, just as written in the wiki page. It's out of date!  You don't need to add gdm as daemon in the rc.conf file, instead you should remove gdm daemon in the rc.conf file and edit the /etc/inittab,  change default runlevel to 5, and set the login manager to your own. After doing this I no longer get vc/1 when rebooting and can see the shutdown information now.

As for the bonobo-activation-server error, it's something wrong with dbus but it doesn't do me any harm for now, so I decided not to touch any other parts of the system and leave it there. Hope the developers can fix this issue in the future updates.

Anyway , thanks for the information on the PolicyKit problem~~

Last edited by Kazte (2008-10-26 02:58:56)

azleifel

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Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 486

Re: Missing shutdown information

We're all learning.  I've been using inittab to start gdm for some time but only because doing that makes it easier to start without a gui when necessary, e.g. if X, gdm or gnome break.  I didn't know that gdm wouldn't work properly if run as a daemon from rc.conf.