I had a Slackware64-current setup working nicely until I upgraded this morning (using slackpkg) with all the recent updates (13th Dec, 16th Dec and 23rd Dec).

Right now I cannot get through a complete boot of the system because it hangs at the point where the console messages read: "Starting ConcoleKit Deamon".

I can boot the laptop using an Arch partition and can mount the Slackware partition and see and manipulate all the files there but am unsure how best to proceed. I could obviously chmod on rc.consolekit in /etc/rc.d to disable it but not sure if this makes good sense if I want a fully working system.

Any advice welcome. Thanks.

did you forget to install the new CK2 ?

My fault diagnosis too hasty - consolekit started up OK. It was the subsequent startup of bluetooth that was causing the hanging. Happy to disable that for the time being while I investigate the bluetooth setup.

rc.bluetooth needed to be replaced by rc.bluetooth.new. The old rc.bluetooth clearly does not play nicely with the various system changes which have taken place. I should have read the changelog more carefully.

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