On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Tianyi Wang <wty52133@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> There are many bug reports about this issue on https://bugs.archlinux.org >> >> Tbh, before GNOME 3.8 got moved to stable repo, someone posted this bug on >> the mailing list, but it still got moved to stable without any warnings on >> the website. > > Hmm, the one JoKoT3 mentions, > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=161964, doesn't sound like > my issue at all. As I've mentioned a few times now, my system hangs > before I get to GDM. The last thing that appears on the terminal are > a few messages from systemd (nothing about any errors) and then > everything just freezes, no reaction to any key presses at all. It turns out it was the GDM issue. I've now installed and turned on slim, edited my ~/.xinitrc, turned off GDM temporarily, and now everything works fine again. Thanks for all the help! /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus