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Grub loads properly and I can boot into WinXP.
When I try to boot Archlinux from Grub, everything proceeds as usual, until it tries to load KDE. Right after it says loading KDE manager, the screen goes black with a blinking cursor at the top left.
I know it can't be due to an update, because I did not do an update on my last Archlinux boot.
What could be causing this? I wish I can get some error outputs, but there is nothing save for a blinking cursor...
I don't know if this helps, but the last thing I was doing in Archlinux was attempting to build sage. Make stalled (for 6 hours) while trying to build the NTL package from sage, so I exited that terminal and shut down the computer and went on with my day. Now I can't boot Arch...]
Last edited by rWarrior (2009-01-13 03:19:03)
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you can't boot kde, there's a difference. append 'single' to your boot line in grub so that you can boot to the commandline, then perhaps try uninstalling and reinstalling kde and see if that helps
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I was able to boot into command line after appending "single".
Since KDE wasn't working, I decided to pacman LXDE, at the end of which pacman found that there was a problem with the zlib.so.1 library I compiled and placed in /usr/local/lib.
I guess /usr/local/lib was checked before /usr/lib (I added /usr/local/lib to ld.so.conf), so my broken* version of zlib was used when Arch attempted to start KDE.
The problem was solved after removing my zlib.
I guess I should also add /usr/lib to ld.so.conf so that libraries that I build does not interfere with the system.
* Well, not really broken, just that it required linking to another library which could not be loaded yet (I think)
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