Solved: Stuck in grub2

mark2 · Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:51 am Post subject:

Well,

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mark2 · Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2013 7:21 pm Post subject:

The first time I tried to use wgetpaste to get the output, but I messed up and forgot the | symbol. So I emerged grub2 once more and running

mark2 · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 3:20 am Post subject:

This did not work. I don't get it. Why can't I past the output without having to type all it out by hand? I can't copy it out of the xterminal window.
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kurly · Apprentice Joined: 02 Apr 2012 Posts: 260

Your wgetpaste is on the wrong side of the pipe, it would seem.

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mark2 · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 6:11 pm Post subject:

@Kurly: You were right. Here are the results of

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mark2 · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 8:29 pm Post subject:

Ok, will do very shortly, and post back.
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mark2 · Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 11:02 pm Post subject:

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You want to solve them here :?:

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mark2 · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 8:44 pm Post subject:

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if you use openrc you must use consolekit. If you're going to use systemd, you won't need consolekit, but be aware systemd is quite different.
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mark2 · Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 12:03 am Post subject:

To tell the truth, I don't have any idea of which I use.
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mark2 · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 6:29 pm Post subject:

Yes, I see that now that I have done some reading and found that I don't have loginctl as mentioned in the Arch wiki article. It appears that it would be advisable to change to systemd, and looking at the wiki for Gentoo, It also appears to be a quite involved process. This may take a while to assimilate.
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mark2 · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 6:54 pm Post subject:

Started with configuring the genkernel options...
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mark2 · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 1:56 pm Post subject:

I have done something wrong once more. I followed the instructions in the wiki on systemd down to checking the line about GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and I already had that in there. So I thought it was time to reboot and now I come into a localhost prompt to login. I can login as my user or root but I have no internet and can't configure my eth0. I type in grub and get the grub 0.97 grub prompt. But the only command it will accept is quit. Tab will not list any other choices.

My brain is beginning to fizzle.
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eyoung100 · Veteran Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 1428

You've done correctly, they forgot to add the networking bit. See:
systemd no internet connection
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mark2 · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 7:14 pm Post subject:

Well something must have picked up because I could run emerge dhcpcd and it completed. It told me I needed to update 11 configuration files in /etc. I then did an ifconfig eth0 just to see and I saw my IPaddress, so that part was good. Now i just have to figure out where to go next.

I ran

mark2 · Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 6:56 pm Post subject:

This is hard to figure out. I can reboot and get the graphical screen to choose, then it goes into the localhost login prompt. When I try to run startx it says:

mark2 · Posted: Thu Nov 21, 2013 3:54 am Post subject:

So, I have done an emerge --sync, and an emerge --oneshot portage, then another emerge --sync which told me I was already up to date. I did an emerge eix. Then an emerge eix -Cci x11-wm. Also did an emerge x11-base/xorg-server which I think I had already done before. All these steps were not necessarily in this order. I also did an rc-update add dbus default. I don't know what has allowed me to get back into my gui, but I still have to start the dhcpcd and startx to get there. Is there any way to make this automatic? I get the pretty starfield splash screen and then the black page and lots of text which takes me to a login prompt. I can login as my user, but I have to issue the dhcpcd and startx commands to get into my gui.

What am I missing?

Oh, yes. Also, my CDrom and my external Iomega USB drive now show up and I can access their files and play media. Yay!
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mark2 · Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 6:47 am Post subject:

Well there was a lot of reading and learning about systemd. In the process I got to go back through and figured out how to get my KDE gui up running at startup, though I might need to find out how to do it in silent mode which shouldn't be too hard. Also got my Kmail to quit complaining about the Akonadi server. Figured out how to setup my printer.

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