On 23/09/12||18:50, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 23-09-2012 18:38, Arno Gaboury wrote: > > On 23/09/12||18:16, Mauro Santos wrote: > >> So far I am only testing how systemd behaves in my system and what > >> changes I need to do before I permanently make the switch. > >> > >> So far the first problem, which doesn't seem to be covered in the wiki, > >> forum or google searches, is that if I switch to a tty after starting X > >> I get just a blank screen. I also get a blank screen and no prompt after > >> I logout from the DE. > >> > >> The conditions that seem to trigger the problem are: > >> I don't use any login managers so I use startx to start my DE of choice > >> (xfce). > >> I have increased the number of available ttys as described here [1] and > >> after booting everything seems to be working fine, since I have the > >> expected number of ttys and I can login at each one of them. > >> Getting local permissions was also taken care of by following [2], for > >> testing purposes I use 'startx -- vt1 &> xlog.log' and I've confirmed > >> that it works as expected. > >> > >> The problem: > >> After starting X, if I switch to any of the ttys with ctrl-alt-f* I get > >> only a blank screen, this includes the ttys that have not been used to > >> start X. > >> After logging out of the DE I get a blank screen at all ttys, including > >> the one used to start X. The machine is otherwise still responsive. > >> > >> Any clues, tips or pointers on how to get this to work are welcome. > >> > >> [1] > >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Q:_How_do_I_change_the_number_of_gettys_running_by_default.3F > >> [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_Login > >> > >> -- > >> Mauro Santos > > I $startx then XFCE, and works fine with systemd. Please have a look > > here: > > > > http://blog.falconindy.com/articles/back-to-basics-with-x-and-systemd.html > > > > > > Thanks. I have seen that too and things seem to be working now. > > It works fine on my physical machine but for some reason it doesn't with > qemu-kvm, which was where I was testing it first, in a setup similar to > what I have on my physical machine (lvm on luks). > > I didn't want something exploding on my face so I was using a test > subject first. > > Sorry for the noise, now I go back to playing with systemd a little more > and try not to break anything ... too much. > > -- > Mauro Santos I went straight to systemd, and nothing exploded on my face! Do not be scared, far from being so complex at it seems to.
