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crash on login screen
Posted: 25. Dec 2009, 02:42
by shindu
i just installed salix on a Pentium 4 2.8 512mb ram machine and it stalls out when i start to enter my user name on the login screen. I went with the basic install and the standard video settings. any idea? or does my description contain to little information?
Re: crash on login screen
Posted: 25. Dec 2009, 05:35
by stuckinoregon
Does the system just freeze when you're trying to login, or what exactly occurs?
Re: crash on login screen
Posted: 31. Dec 2009, 03:32
by jwhendy
I have potentially the same issue...
I just installed Salix OS 64 bit on a Macbook (2,1 -- late 2006 version) and everything seems to boot fine until the login screen. As I began to type my username in the letters started to appear as jwhendy but immediately turned to vertical lines. The mouse, which had originally been moving fine, stopped moving. I was unable to alt+f2 to open another tty or ctrl+alt+del or super+alt+del or any other sometimes uses escape method. I had to hard kill.
I have done this twice with consistent results and kind of want a guess as to the problem before I have to put my laptop through more hard kills... The second time, I waited to log in and just moved the mouse around a bit. Every time I moused over the menus available (session and whatever others are on the bottom), they turned from words into vertical scrambled lines. When I clicked into the login box, it froze shortly after.
Best regards,
John
Re: crash on login screen
Posted: 31. Dec 2009, 06:29
by jwhendy
Update: I was able to press some combination of keys quickly enough to get to a second tty and login. I scanned dmesg output and came across this (this is paraphrased from memory and some quick notes):
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EXT2-fs: couldn't mount filesystem because of unsupported features (240)
EXT3-fs: couldn't mount filesystem because of unsupported features (244)
EXT4-fs: Info something something
EXT4-fs: Recovery required in readonly filesystem
EXT4-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery
EXT4-fs: barriers enabled
There was something about bmalloc in there too...
One interesting thing is that the output of mount contained
instead of what I would have expected (/dev/sda3 on /).
Thoughts? I'm going to try a reinstall on ext3 or xfs to see if that changes anything.
Best regards,
John
Re: crash on login screen
Posted: 31. Dec 2009, 07:02
by witek
shindu wrote:i just installed salix on a Pentium 4 2.8 512mb ram machine and it stalls out when i start to enter my user name on the login screen.
Most problematic is intel video card if you have one. Intel driver works fine on new cards but on older ones (i810, etc.) it is extremely unstable. I installed Salix on my friend`s computer but it was unusable due to X freezes. I have similar issues with Slackware on my Dell but finally I managed to have usable system by upgrading the driver (only seldom crashes). I even prepared packages for Slackware:
http://advamacs.com/pub/xf86-video-inte ... i486-1.tgz
http://advamacs.com/pub/xf86-video-inte ... i486-1.txz
Re: crash on login screen
Posted: 31. Dec 2009, 07:05
by witek
jwhendy wrote: I would have expected (/dev/sda3 on /).
This is normal. Try
to peek where your root is
Re: crash on login screen
Posted: 31. Dec 2009, 07:11
by jwhendy
When has this become a problem? I have a MacBook and my xorg.conf files have typically only needed 'driver intel' in my display device config section. While this is my first interaction with Salix, I find it odd that this would be my first time with this issue...
Your drivers are updates for xf86-video-intel in general or how it interacts with Slack?
I don't want to sound horribly doubtful, but since I'm trying Salix after running Zenwalk for a couple years now, I find it odd that my video driver would just not work on another Slack based distro unless this is particularly related to Slack 13... although I think Zen is based on slack-current so I would figure that shouldn't be an issue.
I'm going to try the 32bit install and see if that brings any love. One of the reasons I tried Salix (Zenwalk has been very good to me) is that it comes in a 64bit version. I'll tinker with 32bit, but if I can't get 64bit to work I lose one of the bigger selling points!
Best regards,
John
Re: crash on login screen
Posted: 31. Dec 2009, 07:32
by witek
I noticed problems with intel driver since xorg 1.5. Zenwalk even provides legacy driver 2.3.2 for older intel cards:
http://packages.zenwalk.org/?q=intel&zv ... details=on
My drivers are built for Slackware 13 (32bit version) and should work on Salix too. If you have problems with intel graphics give them a try (and/or Zenwalk`s legacy driver)
Re: crash on login screen
Posted: 31. Dec 2009, 07:33
by gapan
I'm guessing this is the explanation and the solution to this problem too:
http://www.salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2603#p2603
Re: crash on login screen
Posted: 31. Dec 2009, 08:06
by jwhendy
Alright...
I'll give that a whirl. I had the same issue with 32bit after installing that. I will say that I found it odd that the 32bit install literally FLEW in comparison to the 64bit. I'd say the 64bit install took about 15min and I can specifically remember particular packages it stalled on. One almost all of those packages the 32bit install took less than half the time if that. I think the install was literally done in about 3-5min. A bit off topic, but I wanted to at least say it.
One last, perhaps silly, question...
Where can I find the packages to download onto another partition? I don't really have the option of opening gslapt since I can't open up x in the first place
I just scanned the salix repos but did not find the versions of the xf86-video-intel. Where should I be looking? x/ xap/ ?
I'll download several versions on to my OS X partition and then install them using installpkg once I boot to runlevel 3.
Best regards,
John