Multiple post-installation problems
Hello, guys,
I'm new to the linux scene and, after some frustrating experiences with Ubuntu 14.10, decided to find the most stable linux distro. Every answer led me here. Anyway, after struggling a bit with the installation, I could finally install Slackware (latest version) using a USB flash drive. Installed Elilo, since I'm dual booting with Windows. I have two hard drives. First hard drive has Windows 8.1 installed. Second used to have Windows, but now it holds a) Windows's recovery (and EFI boot) partitions b) a general NTFS storage partition c) Slackware itself on /dev/sdb9 d) a swap partition on /dev/sdb8. I had some errors post-installation: Code:
VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6. Please append a correct "root=" boot option: here are the available partition ... Code:
cannot open consolekit session unable to open session failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: no such file or directory I'm not familiar with the default KDE environment, but everything looked out of place. For example, I could not find a Wifi toggle (seems pretty standard on OSes these days). In fact, there were no bars at all, except a bottom bar to add widgets. Thought to myself it could be normal behavior on KDE, and directed myself to system settings. Figured I'd try to update and everything would be corrected, but I had no internet connection. Trying to open the network settings, it force-closed on me. Other settings force closed as well. I thought it could be related to the root account, so I logged out and logged in again with my default user. Same error. Same general dysfunctional desktop environment, except that sudo doesn't work and upon editing sudoers I get syntax errors (all I did was add "username ALL=(ALL) ALL"). I have found some troubleshooting ideas for other distros, but they all referred to files I could not find on Slackware. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! EDIT: I've seen this response for Arch Linux numerous times: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=132802, but it refers to a /etc/rd.conf I cannot seem to find. Another user suggests the deletion of a ~/.kde folder, which I've done, to no avail. PS: Sorry for taking so long to explain my problem, this is all new to me and I'm not sure which details are important. |
1 - You don't need elilo, I have Windows 8.1 installed too and LILO works fine.
2 - I am not able to help you :-( but I know we will need you to provide more information. |
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2 - What kind of information? Tell me the logs to run and I'll do it, I just don't know what to run by myself. |
Maybe dmesg and Xorg.0.log?
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During installation, as part of networking configuration, you should have seen the question whether you want to use NetworkManager yes/no. If you chose "yes" then in KDE you can add a networkmanagement widget by clicking on the bottom-right corner icon and searching for "network". If you answered "no" to NetworkManager support, then you need to configure your network manually using an ascii editor, in the configuration file "/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf". Quote:
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Thank you for your answers. If the barebones is the default KDE configuration, then *that* is fine. I rather like it. I was just worried it could be a bug. Anyway, back to business.
Contents of rc.messagebus: Code:
#!/bin/sh http://i.imgur.com/WuIAFqR.png I did a "su/chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus", not sure if that will help. |
Additional logs:
Xorg: http://textuploader.com/ovtt dmesg (err looks important): http://textuploader.com/ovt0 system settings debug: http://textuploader.com/ovtk |
The error at the start of the "dmesg" log about "couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240)" is in fact just a warning. See http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-240-a-843675/ for the explanation.
The segfault of systemsettings happens in libQtDBus.so, so this seems related to the DBus errors you see at login. The content of rc.messagebus which you posted earlier is irrelevant, this is a Slackware script which is never modified. It is worth running it again before you start X: Code:
/etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus restart Eric |
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Edit: Apparently, that's not automatic either. I'm going through http://docs.slackware.com/slackbook:network. Edit 2: Ok, I've been able to configure them by myself. Thanks everybody! |
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