Hi anti and team - great job on the latest antiX, Toussaint Louverture.
I've noticed, however, that I've had the same problem I had with v7.2 - Slim crashed/disappeared on me, never to return.
In this instance I was trying to watch a DVD, which failed to load (Mplayer and GXine both froze on me), so I rebooted and found I had no graphical login.
I am able to login at the commandline and do a 'startx' to get my Fluxbox desktop, so it's not a show-stopper - just a bit annoying/baffling.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can reinstate Slim/graphical login?
Cheers.
Slim disappeared
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- Posts: 9 red devil
- Joined: 20 May 2008
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anticapitalista
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#2
Hi red devil.
The besy way would be to apt-get remove --purge slim & apt-get install slim.
Before doing so, I advise keeping the antiX slim config files (/etc/slim.conf and /usr/share/slim/themes/antiX folder) otherwise you will lose them.
Or try this first:
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The besy way would be to apt-get remove --purge slim & apt-get install slim.
Before doing so, I advise keeping the antiX slim config files (/etc/slim.conf and /usr/share/slim/themes/antiX folder) otherwise you will lose them.
Or try this first:
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- Posts: 9 red devil
- Joined: 20 May 2008
#3
Hi anticapitalista,
Thanks for the tips - the second one, re the var/log/slim.*** files, worked a treat.
Slim is back and my fonts are back to normal. Any idea what is causing this weird behaviour?
Thanks for the tips - the second one, re the var/log/slim.*** files, worked a treat.
Slim is back and my fonts are back to normal. Any idea what is causing this weird behaviour?
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anticapitalista
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#4
I have no idea what the cause is TBH, but a fix is to save the code below as /etc/logrotate.d/slim
/var/log/slim.log {
compress
rotate 1
size=+1024k
notifempty
missingok
copytruncate
noolddir
}
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/var/log/slim.log {
compress
rotate 1
size=+1024k
notifempty
missingok
copytruncate
noolddir
}
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linktext was:"http://forums.wolvix.org/index.php?topic=969.0"
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- Posts: 1,520 eriefisher
- Joined: 07 Oct 2007
#5
When it happened to me most of the log contained errors about acpi. I edited /boot/grub/menu.lst to acpi=off I think it was and the issue went away. Doing this did not seem to affect my system otherwise.
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#6
Hi eriefisher,
The only problem I can see with disabling acpi in grub/menu.lst is that I am no longer able to use Conky to monitor my battery level, which is a bit of a problem as I've installed antiX M7.5 on a laptop I use 'on the road' all the time.
Is there some other way of monitoring battery levels in antiX that I haven't found yet?
I'm going to re-enable acpi in menu.lst and see what happens. Will report back soon.
The only problem I can see with disabling acpi in grub/menu.lst is that I am no longer able to use Conky to monitor my battery level, which is a bit of a problem as I've installed antiX M7.5 on a laptop I use 'on the road' all the time.
Is there some other way of monitoring battery levels in antiX that I haven't found yet?
I'm going to re-enable acpi in menu.lst and see what happens. Will report back soon.
- Posts: 1,520 eriefisher
- Joined: 07 Oct 2007
#7
The logrotate option anti mentioned should work to keep the log from getting to big. Another way might be in the Mepis tools. In a run command type"gksu msystem". There is an option to clear logs on boot.