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Godofgrunts

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Registered: 2008-11-14

Posts: 43

Hal, Dbus, Host, and Removing leftover files.

Ugh... So I just spent almost 12 hours on setting up my Laptop with Arch. It was all set up and perfect.

So I go to reboot to make sure everything was kosher and the boot process hangs at "Removing Leftover Files" and it just sits there at [BUSY] for about an hour.

So I hit Ctrl+c to skip it.

It goes on and gets to HAL which fails.
Then Dbus fails.
Then my host name doesn't get resolved.

It boots into my GUI (openbox) and everything loads fine, but obviously not my mouse. I couldn't ctrl+alt+F1 out of it or anything.

Booted into a live CD and changed /etc/inittab to level 3 so I could get into command line.

:'( I'm so upset. Is there a fix for this?

Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

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Re: Hal, Dbus, Host, and Removing leftover files.

I believe that "Removing Leftover Files" refers to cleaning /tmp out.  I'm not sure though.  I'd begin looking to see if there are any problems with your /tmp directory.

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Godofgrunts

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Registered: 2008-11-14

Posts: 43

Re: Hal, Dbus, Host, and Removing leftover files.

Is there a way to disable it? I can clean out my own temp files and the last thing I want is to wait for my computer to delete them before booting up.

Godofgrunts

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Registered: 2008-11-14

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Re: Hal, Dbus, Host, and Removing leftover files.

So I found some some other user were having the same issue with XFS as there file system. I guess maybe that was the cause. Using ext2 and ext4 right now it works.

Macdelaney

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Registered: 2008-11-24

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Re: Hal, Dbus, Host, and Removing leftover files.

I'm having the same problem but my fs is ext4.  It takes a couple of minutes though not an hour.