Eli Heady wrote: >>> Tuesday 16 October 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> | I am having an issue. I don't really use kde i use fluxbox but I >>> | use kde apps sometimes. I was trying to run kate from my flux menu >>> | and nothing happened, so I typed the kate from the command line >>> | and it just sat there. I tried konqueror, kwrite and they did the >>> | same thing. I then logged out of fluxbox and tried to log into >>> | kde. The splash screen stalled at "Initializing system services" >>> | for a little while and then went to a blank black screen.
> This is a stab in the dark, but I've had bad networking configurations cause > similar symptoms. > > Do you have an entry for localhost in /etc/hosts? > Is the lo interface restricted by iptables? > > hth, > > eli I would agree. I've run into that exact situation before (KDE stalling at "initializing system services") and it was always because the lo interface was not up. Make certain that your box is starting "network" in rc.conf, and that lo is still up when you're trying to do the KDE login. (i.e., type "ifconfig" and make sure lo is listed.) DR _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
