New problems, old times

Dyzphagia · 2012-10-09 03:20:35

Now I figured this was the best place to put it. As I feel you guys are a bit more intelligent than some people. Anyway, so I recently obtained a mint Thinkpad T40. I installed Arch Linux on it, but I seem to have messed it up somewhere. I have AwesomeWM installed and SLIM login manager.

Problem is, when it starts up. It goes to the TTY1, then goes to the Slim screen. I am able to enter my name and password, but instead of logging into Awesome, it just stays at Slim. If I jump back into TTY and startx, it's running fine. Has anybody experienced any thing familiar? If so, how did you fix it?

Also if I posted this in the wrong section, I apologize. I just trust the opinions of the people here more than other forums

gutterslob · 2012-10-09 03:52:30

Strange. I figured the Arch forums would be the best place. Anyways, let's see.....

So it basically sounds like a SLIM problem. Typical lol

I'm not the best person to ask, but doesn't SLIM have a log file of some sort (slim.log probably)? Could you locate that and post its contents, for starters. Also might be worth posting your slim.conf, xinitrc and other (if any) init files you're employing. We'll need to narrow down whether SLIM is failing to launch X or just the wm.

Could be one of many issues. Maybe Xauthority related, d-bus daemon related, permission related..... but they all most probably lead to SLIM

Last edited by gutterslob (2012-10-09 03:54:37)

chameleon · 2012-10-09 04:02:40

Have you got a ~/.xinitrc file?

This file should have;

exec awesome

SLIM needs this file wink

or it could require an ~/.xsession file as per this infinite loop thread;

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … nite-loop/

Have you read through the Arch wiki?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM

This thread might also be relevant;
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … em-solved/

Hope this helps.
Not for me to say but as you are using Arch you should maybe try the Arch forums...

Let us know how you get on with the above suggestions.

Last edited by chameleon (2012-10-09 04:16:05)

oupsemma · 2012-10-09 06:07:27

You might also check this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=145146

There's a bug report about it ( https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30864 ) and the solution, provided your ~/.xinitrc is correct and you've been checking slim logs ( $ journalctl /usr/bin/slim if you're using systemd, $ tail /var/log/slim.log otherwise ), would be to install slim-nock (Slim w/o Consolekit support) from the AUR

Dyzphagia · 2012-10-11 01:53:04

Here's my .xinitrc code

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

DEFAULT_SESSION=awesome
case $1 in
awesome ) exec $1 ;;
*) exec $DEFAULT_SESSION ;;
esac
# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
#exec startxfce4
# ...or the window Manager of your choice
exec awesome

And my slim.conf is way too much to type out, but I added awesome to sessions and it looks like

sessions awesome,xfce4,icewm-session,wmaker,blackbox

I tried the xsessions and all that, yet it still hangs on the slim screen.

Last edited by Dyzphagia (2012-10-11 02:22:10)

Dyzphagia · 2012-10-13 00:27:51

Got it fixed, forgot to enable the dbus daemon. Now I just feel silly

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#1 2012-10-09 03:20:35

New problems, old times

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