Upgrade from 12.2 to 13.0 hangs at "Updating gtk.immodules:..."

chrisbrewer · 05-08-2010, 10:57 PM

I finally grabbed Slackware 13.0 x86-32 and have followed the UPGRADE.TXT instructions to upgrade my 12.2 system. The problem is that now I can't get the system back into runlevel 3 without it hanging at:

Updating gtk.immodules: gtk-query-immodules-2.0 > /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules

Any ideas?

H_TeXMeX_H · 05-10-2010, 12:30 PM

Well one possibility is commenting them out of '/etc/rc.d/rc.M', I comment them out because they really do lag the boot, and so for nothing went wrong, you can run those yourself anyway if you ever need to.

Now, of course, it could have nothing to do with these, but it's worth a try.

fruttenboel · 05-11-2010, 03:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrisbrewer

I finally grabbed Slackware 13.0 x86-32 and have followed the UPGRADE.TXT instructions to upgrade my 12.2 system. The problem is that now I can't get the system back into runlevel 3 without it hanging at:

Updating gtk.immodules: gtk-query-immodules-2.0 > /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules

Any ideas?

I had similar problems and decided to see what was REALLY going on.... I inserted extra echo lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.M and found out that the system hung at installing CUPSD! And the reason for this hang was that there was no entry for this computer (nitrogen) in /etc/hosts!

So I added

Code:

192.168.56.7     nitrogen.fruttenboel   nitrogen

When this was done, the booting went as lightning again.

Code:

# SCIM and other GTK+ input methods like this file kept updated:
if [ -x /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0 ]; then
  echo "Updating gtk.immodules:  gtk-query-immodules-2.0 > /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules"
  /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0 > /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules 2> /dev/null
fi

echo "GTK done, running dnsmasq now"

# Start dnsmasq, a simple DHCP/DNS server:
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.dnsmasq ]; then
  /etc/rc.d/rc.dnsmasq start
fi

echo "dnsmasq done, running snmp now"

# Start snmpd:
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.snmpd ]; then
  /etc/rc.d/rc.snmpd start
fi

echo "snmp done, running cups now"

and lots more of these extra 'echo' lines.