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DB_Cooper

#! Member

From: A narrowboat, English canals

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 54

Another Slim problem? (SOLVED)

Just downloaded and installed but cannot get past the username/password bit. If I input the correct username/password it returns briefly to the previous text screen then back to the username screen. If I input the incorrect username/password it just returns me to the username screen.

I've tried both graphical and text installs. It works well in virtualization and as a live usb

Never had a problem before.

Any ideas?

My #! Alpha 2 is getting a little slow now (too much going on) and I would like to get things speeded (sic|) up again.

Dan

Last edited by DB_Cooper (2011-12-15 19:25:14)

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VastOne

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From: #! Fringe Division

Registered: 2011-04-26

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Re: Another Slim problem? (SOLVED)

I would recommend using tty1 (ctrl/alt/f1) and login to make sure you have a login at all..

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DB_Cooper

#! Member

From: A narrowboat, English canals

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 54

Re: Another Slim problem? (SOLVED)

The login works through tty but when there, startx doesn't, well, start x. Or does that only work as root?

Looks like it may be a Slim problem.

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VastOne

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Registered: 2011-04-26

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Re: Another Slim problem? (SOLVED)

From tty1 you could run

sudo apt-get install lightdm

and chose it as your dm when asked

Then reboot and see if you can login

This will verify if it is a SliM issue

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DB_Cooper

#! Member

From: A narrowboat, English canals

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 54

Re: Another Slim problem? (SOLVED)

No, it's not locating lightdm. I knew I should never have started this tonight.

Anyway, #! Alpha 2 was excellen!!!

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VastOne

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Re: Another Slim problem? (SOLVED)

I was not aware lightdm was not in Stable

Sorry about that

You could install gdm instead

sudo apt-get install gdm

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DB_Cooper

#! Member

From: A narrowboat, English canals

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 54

Re: Another Slim problem? (SOLVED)

I'm on a dongle here and it won't go on-line without network manage up and running.

I'll try again in the morning with a reinstall of the iso onto the flash drive. The downloaded iso has a good md5sum so that's all tickety boo.

Many thanks VastOne for your help.

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Unia

#! Die Hard

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2010-07-17

Posts: 3,091

Re: Another Slim problem? (SOLVED)

Take a look at ~/.xsession-errors when logging in through tty1

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kelean

#! CrunchBanger

Registered: 2009-01-21

Posts: 178

Re: Another Slim problem? (SOLVED)

When you installed did you use your home directory from a previous install.  I had that same problem when I used my home dir.  I think it has something to do with the switch from gdm to slim.

donkeyotay

#! CrunchBanger

From: Everywhere

Registered: 2011-01-28

Posts: 163

Re: Another Slim problem? (SOLVED)

If you have used your old /home then I had a similar problem & after much to-ing & fro-ing & a great deal of help on these forums, I did a clean install. Just couldn't find a way around the problem
HTH
Simon

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Unia

#! Die Hard

From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2010-07-17

Posts: 3,091

Re: Another Slim problem? (SOLVED)

To both of you, did you check if you had a ~/.xinitrc file? Cause if you don't, SLiM won't work

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VastOne

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From: #! Fringe Division

Registered: 2011-04-26

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Re: Another Slim problem? (SOLVED)

If you did use an existing /home on your install and used the same login name, it is possible it is a permissions issue

If that is what you did,  you can run this from tty1 and it should correct the issue

login to tty1 then

sudo su

chown -R yourusername:yourusername /home/yourusername

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DB_Cooper

#! Member

From: A narrowboat, English canals

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 54

Re: Another Slim problem? (SOLVED)

Many thanks to VastOne, donkeyotay & kelean. I was indeed using the existing home partition and this conflicted with Slim. Copied, deleted and renewed.

I note that papnominal does recommend a clean install but I ignored him as I thought I knew better. What does he know, He's from Lincolnshire. Oh silly me.

Cheers one and all.

#! Alpha two  is indeed now dead. Long live #! 10-2011125 (it just doesn't have the same ring)

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VastOne

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Re: Another Slim problem? (SOLVED)

Great to hear DB 

Make sure and edit the original post title with a (Solved)

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dubois

The Old Codger

Registered: 2010-09-03

Posts: 2,238

Re: Another Slim problem? (SOLVED)

DB, I was surprised to read you were still using Alpha-2, but it was a dandy little distro, wasn't it!  Also happy to know you've got a fix on this.

DB_Cooper

#! Member

From: A narrowboat, English canals

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 54

Re: Another Slim problem? (SOLVED)

If it ain't broke and all that. I also had quite a few customizations that I'll have to repeat (if I can remember how) with the new install including stuff not in the repos.

That's the problem with this forum, It gives you ideas above your station.

The joy of Linux.

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Dan