[SOLVED] Stopping X from starting

Csosa · 2009-07-28 19:21:48

I've solved a lot of other issues going through the forums and was hoping this one would be no different
I'm pretty new to Arch and I'm glad I finally found a great distro once and for all!
Anyway:
dbus and consequently hal don't start up when I boot, so I have no keyboard or mouse input by the time I get to my gnome login screen. it might be because I set "syslog-ng" to bkgd, hmm...Maybe by just editing rc.conf I can fix all this? How can I get into the console before X starts up without Hal? I can't mess with hotplugging or drivers by that point.

tl;dr X autostarts at boot and I need to stop it before it even loads.

Last edited by Csosa (2009-07-28 20:36:10)

amranu · 2009-07-28 19:30:29

Use the safe arch boot in the GRUB menu, edit /etc/rc.conf, add hal if it isn't there.

Csosa · 2009-07-28 19:50:29

I kind of set myself up for failure there by making GRUB's wait time=0 at that menu to speed up my boot time

Last edited by Csosa (2009-07-28 19:50:56)

idealeric · 2009-07-28 20:05:57

i thought you could still get the grub menu even with a wait time of 0. either way, you could always run a live cd, mount arch's partion and edit rc.conf, either to get rid of gdm, or add hal. shame you have to do that, but that's my best idea.

Csosa · 2009-07-28 20:25:44

That sounds great to me. After booting up the liveCD and logging in as root, how exactly do I mount (hd0,0)? I only have 2 partitions, and the other is swap.

I don't see ext4 as a supported fs type?

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jowilkin · 2009-07-28 20:29:27

You need a mount point, usually /mnt makes a good choice, and you need to know the name of the partition you want to mount. You can use the command

fdisk -l

as root to see your partitions. Usually the one you want will be like /dev/sda1. Then to mount this to /mnt use

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

Then your filesystem will show up under /mnt. So your rc.conf would be in /mnt/etc/rc.conf.

Csosa · 2009-07-28 20:37:02

Thank you so much! That worked perfectly. Should I add these instructions to the wiki?

jowilkin · 2009-07-29 00:43:10

Csosa wrote:

Thank you so much! That worked perfectly. Should I add these instructions to the wiki?

If there is an appropriate place for them it would be useful, I've run into the same problem myself in the past.

It seems like there should be an easy way to boot into a command line only arch so that rc.conf can be edited. Maybe there is and we took the long way.

miau · 2009-07-29 01:16:56

If you can access the grub menu you can specify the runlevel in the kernel line.

jowilkin · 2009-07-29 02:12:24

So it looks from a quick search that you just add the word "single" to the end of your kernel line in grub to get single user mode (run level 1?). Or add just a number to the end of the kernel line specifying the run level you want so something like this for run level 3

kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/68d2ec02-f479-403e-bafe-d28e9f5d8712 ro 3

Csosa · 2009-07-29 23:57:13

Here you go!
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … _GUI_login

This is my thanks to all of you.

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