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#1 2009-11-09 01:11:08

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frozen at slim manager login screen [SOLVED]

I just completed my first install of Arch linux following the documentation online.  After installing xfce4, I decided I'd add a login manager.  People in the forums seemed to recommend slim to others, so I thought I'd give that a try.  Upon rebooting, I found myself staring at the login prompt, though it was completely frozen.  In this state, my computer appears to no longer respond to either the mouse or keyboard.  Alt + ctrl + F7, alt + ctrl + F1, etc. don't do anything.  At this point, I restart my computer, which brings me back to the frozen login prompt...

I thought I'd setup my ~/.xinitrc correctly but I can't check it (or do anything else for that matter).  Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for your time.

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#2 2009-11-09 01:24:37

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Re: frozen at slim manager login screen [SOLVED]

You can boot into single user mode, i.e. as root and without X. Then you can fix your configuration files.
Here is a description: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 06#p476106


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#3 2009-11-09 02:08:08

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Re: frozen at slim manager login screen [SOLVED]

You can boot into single user mode, i.e. as root and without X. Then you can fix your configuration files.
Here is a description: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 06#p476106

Thanks for the tip.  That got me back to something I could work with.  However, my .xinitrc file looks okay to me:

#!/bin/sh
#
#~/.xinitrc
#
#Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

#exec gnome-session
#exec startkde
#exec startxfce4
#...or the Window Manager of your choice

exec startxfce4

If the .xinitrc file is okay, what else would cause this?

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#4 2009-11-09 16:07:48

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Re: frozen at slim manager login screen [SOLVED]

Is HAL enabled (check your rc.conf)?

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#5 2009-11-09 16:54:13

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Re: frozen at slim manager login screen [SOLVED]

Just for clarification: startx works fine, it's only when you use slim that you get the freeze. Right?


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#6 2009-11-09 18:50:32

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Re: frozen at slim manager login screen [SOLVED]

Is HAL enabled (check your rc.conf)?

I skipped everything above the Daemons section:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network crond alsa)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network crond hal)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network crond fam)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng slim)

Just for clarification: startx works fine, it's only when you use slim that you get the freeze. Right?

This had been the case yes.  After installing slim and having trouble with the login screen, I added "single" to the boot options.  After logging in as root (not using slim) and typing "startxfce4," xfce starts up in a frozen state similar to the slim login screen.  After uninstalling slim, this "freezing" behavior continues with xfce4.  Before I originally installed slim, everything had been working perfectly, so I assume something I did messed up a configuration file somewhere; I just can't find it.  Since the problem isn't specifically with slim, I've reinstalled it and continue to encounter the same problem.

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#7 2009-11-09 18:54:35

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Re: frozen at slim manager login screen [SOLVED]

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#8 2009-11-09 19:05:11

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Re: frozen at slim manager login screen [SOLVED]

Dependency Issues wrote:

Is HAL enabled (check your rc.conf)?

I skipped everything above the Daemons section:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network crond alsa)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network crond hal)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network crond fam)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng slim)

Do you really have 5 different DAEMONS arrays in /etc/rc.conf?  If so, there's your problem.  Put all your daemons in one array. Something like this:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network @netfs @crond @alsa @fam @slim)

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#9 2009-11-09 19:23:13

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Re: frozen at slim manager login screen [SOLVED]

changed DAEMONS section to

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network @netfs @crond @alsa @hal @fam @slim)

Now when I boot up, the process stays on Network     [Busy] for a while.  It gets passed it, and then the rest flashes too quickly to read but I see lots of red.  Then the slim login screen appears and I can type in it!  Logging into xfce4 works and so does xfce4 itself.  So, even though it seems like something is still messed up (I get "Fail" for at least one step in the boot process), my computer is now useable.

I'll mark this thread as solved and keep reading through the documentation and forum posts.  Thanks everyone for helping.

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#10 2009-11-09 20:11:38

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Re: frozen at slim manager login screen [SOLVED]

I would put hal after syslog-ng and I would not background it (@).

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#11 2009-11-09 21:17:30

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Re: frozen at slim manager login screen [SOLVED]

I would put hal after syslog-ng and I would not background it (@).

Thanks.  I've changed some settings in the DAEMONS array, installed wicd (following instructions on the arch wiki, including disabling network, etc.), and I've got my system running perfectly.

I very much appreciate all the help.  Thank you smile.

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