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I installed Slim and I added it to the daemon section in rc.conf and after rebooting it brings me to a login screen. But when I try to login it say "failed to execute login command" and it closes, bringing me back to the regular command line login but after half a second it reloads and once again asks me for my login.
How do I boot up without having Slim load?
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You can boot into run level 3 by appending a 3 to your kernel line, or you could switch to a console with Ctrl-Alt-{F1-F6}
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Or, you can hit ctrl-alt-f2 (or f3 through f6) to get a terminal window you can log into in order to fix your ~/.xinitrc file.
Avoid ctrl-alt-f1 because Slim fights with it and steals keystrokes. FYI, the Slim login is running in an X session running (probably) on tty7. You can get back to it with a ctrl-alt-f7. It could be on tty8 depending on the state of a few things.
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Run level 3 doesn't stop it and this is in a VM so ctrl-alt-f1 brought down my real system
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You could try a different runlevel like maybe 1 for instance. I think thats maintenance mode right?
Or you could always just ... boot live cd in the vm , mount virtual hd, navigate into mountpoint modify files there, unmount, reboot without livecd
Last edited by tjwoosta (2011-02-22 03:30:07)
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level 1 did it. I forgot all about the possibility of using the cd lol. Thanks!
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Glad to help
I think runlevel 3 is multiuser without X11, but it still loads the daemons and networking. Runlevel 1 is single user maintenance mode and doesnt load any daemons or networking.
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I know this seems to be solved, but to prevent it from happening again, i would recommend you use the inittab for starting slim, because then you can tell it not to start slim by appending init 3 to the kernel line in grub
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Thanks
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