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Hi folks,
I'm a newbie to Linux, though I've used it for a while. I upgraded from Slitaz 3.0 to 4.0 (in the option drop down menu for which partition to upgrade, I could choose between hda1 and hda5 in the drop-down menu, and randomly chose hda1).
On boot, now I only get a text prompt asking for login-name and password. I logged in correctly, but only get a new line prompting me again, which stumps me since I only have experience using a GUI.
How can I configure the system to enter the GUI at startup?
Alex
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What does using the command [c]startx[/c] give you?
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It gives me a page of text. The first four lines (am entering them manually) are
chown: unknown user/group [my login-name]:users
chown: unknown user/group [my login-name]:users
-XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer : Unable to open socket for inet6
-XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inte6/[the personal name I gave my computer]:0
and further down it says
Current Operating System: Linux [my personal computer-name] 2.6.37-Slitaz #2 SMP (and then gives a date, probably the date I installed Slitaz 3.0) i686
Alex
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Another thing about startup: It now asks me to select between two soundcards every time.
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Let's try adding the group "users" then:
1. [c]su[/c] (default password is root - you may have changed this)
2. [c]addgroup users[/c]
3. Try running [c]startx[/c] again
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output from these 3 steps is
/root/.xsession: .: line 3: can't open '/root/.config/slitaz/applications.conf'
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Hello Alexbn,
I don't understand how you upgrade/install (?) SliTaz 4.0.
When you say "I upgraded from Slitaz 3.0 to 4.0", do you mean SliTaz 3.0 was running and you run tazpkg-installer and ask for Upgrade ?
You say too "I could choose between hda1 and hda5 in the drop-down menu, and randomly chose hda1"
I nerver done upgrades, only install; I suppose if you ask for an upgrade you don't have to choose the partiton, SliTaz knows where it is installed.
Or did you install SliTaz 4.0 from a live using Tazpanel ?
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Ceel: I installed SliTaz 4.0 from the live using Tazpanel.
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Alexbn,
Was SliTaz 3.0 installed on the same partition (hda1) ?
Did you ask to Tazpanel to format the partition before installing ?
What does Grub propose ?
Can you see brievly an error message before prompt asks you for login ?
I had a similar problem two years ago after installing a cooking; I remember a message like "Failed to execute login command" or something like that was shortly displayed and then prompt asked me for login. And like you I could log.
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I don't know which partition SliTaz 3.0 was installed on. It's not a dual-boot.
I believe I did not ask Tazpanel to format the partition before installing.
The Grub command outputs 10 lines (and perhaps it's not finished outputting?):
(Line 1:) Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may may take a long time.
(Line 4:) end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
(Line 6:) GRUB4DOS 0.4.4 2012-04-09, Memory 640 k /3m, MenuEnd: 0xB7347054
There is no error message before the prompt asks me for login.
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Is there any alternative way of retaining the settings from SliTaz 3.0 when installing 4.0?
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