I just wanted to let everyone know that I am a complete idiot. I was pretty sure that I had lo enabled, but I was messing around with network profiles this last weekend and I disabled it for some reason. So thanks for the help even though it was a little dumb mistake.
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:05:56 -0400, David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
