startx black screen after installing VTown - resolution
by bitfuzzy from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5BAX2)
After hours (9 to be exact) of multiple failed attempts, I figured I'd share what worked for me in the hopes it will save someone a little grief...
I decided to give Vtown a go and updated my -current virtualbox guest, and installed Vtown using Code:slackpkg install vtownWhen the installation was complete I rebooted the instance, logged in and with high expectation typed Code:startx (My machines boot via run level 3)
I was met with a plasma load screen, then nothing.. a black screen
Errors and logs indicated missing files and/or directory paths, I couldn't understand it
I restored the image and tried again with the same results
After hours of scouring Linuxquestions (the search function is broken in case nobody uses it) to no avail, a google search brought me to what I needed
Eric Hameleers (aka AlianBob) Slackbook blog - https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/ktown-becomes-vtown/
Using a fully updated instance of SlackWare64 -Current I performed the following steps
NOTE: you should probably perform these steps in console mode, or at least using a interface which does not depend on kde or consolekit2
/etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf
Change
Code:PRIORITY=( patches %PKGMAIN extra pasture testing )To
Code:PRIORITY=( testing patches %PKGMAIN extra pasture )Re-run slackpkg update (type y when asked to replace update files - no changes found)
Next run
Code:slackpkg remove kde
slackpkg remove ConsoleKit2
slackpkg install vtown
slackpkg upgrade vtownWhen finished reboot and log in
I decided to give Vtown a go and updated my -current virtualbox guest, and installed Vtown using Code:slackpkg install vtownWhen the installation was complete I rebooted the instance, logged in and with high expectation typed Code:startx (My machines boot via run level 3)
I was met with a plasma load screen, then nothing.. a black screen
Errors and logs indicated missing files and/or directory paths, I couldn't understand it
I restored the image and tried again with the same results
After hours of scouring Linuxquestions (the search function is broken in case nobody uses it) to no avail, a google search brought me to what I needed
Eric Hameleers (aka AlianBob) Slackbook blog - https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/ktown-becomes-vtown/
Using a fully updated instance of SlackWare64 -Current I performed the following steps
NOTE: you should probably perform these steps in console mode, or at least using a interface which does not depend on kde or consolekit2
/etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf
Change
Code:PRIORITY=( patches %PKGMAIN extra pasture testing )To
Code:PRIORITY=( testing patches %PKGMAIN extra pasture )Re-run slackpkg update (type y when asked to replace update files - no changes found)
Next run
Code:slackpkg remove kde
slackpkg remove ConsoleKit2
slackpkg install vtown
slackpkg upgrade vtownWhen finished reboot and log in