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System hangs at the login screen
  • AshwinAshwin September 2010
    Hello,

    I am using slitaz 3.0. I followed the guide at http://doc.slitaz.org/en:guides:kernel.
    I made a custom kernel with RTAI patch. Everything went smooth.

    Problem: When I boot into my new kernel the system hangs at the login screen.
    I cannot enter my username or password.

    I am using 2.6.30.5 kernel(with RTAI 3.8.1 patch).

    Please help.

    Thank you.
    Ashwin M. Damle
  • babaorumbabaorum September 2010
    Hi,
    Please display a "real" console (Ctrl-Alt-F1 will display one of these) and see if you can log in as root (login = root, pass = ... any root pass, "root" by default, same as login).
    Then try to display log messages (located in /var/log/). The interesting ones should be "boot.log" and "slim.log" IMHO).

    --Babaorum
  • AshwinAshwin September 2010
    Hello Babaorum,

    I tried to Ctrl-Alt-F1 but No luck I am not able to log in. It doesn't allow me to Ctrl-Alt-F1. It's frozen.
    What could be the problem?I can't figure out.

    Thanks.
    Ashwin M. Damle
  • seawolfseawolf September 2010
    I had/have this problem on Cooking and can't figure it out either; I'm back to Stable. I though it was the gfx or input drivers but I couldn't get it going. You may have more luck than me changing to the VESA gfx driver, disabling HAL etc.

    Try booting directly into text-mode by hitting 'E' when the bootloader appears (on the message "Booting SliTaz in 2 seconds...") and edit the 'kernel' line. Append to the end of that line:
    screen=text

    before pressing Enter and 'B' to boot the custom config. You should then have a command line interface from which you can view the log files.

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