Login screen locked up SOLVED

I've installed Arch a few times and it has been my only distro for the last two years and runs great on my main box and Thinkpad T61 laptop.
I've just tried to install first gnome and then kde on my partners T43 thinkpad which used to run Arch perfectly but on 1st boot now the login screen is locked up.
I cannot type or get a mouse pointer and can't ctrl-alt-backspace or ctrl-alt delete or ctrl-alt-f3 or anything.
Only thing is to switch off. The keyboard and mouse worked fine on a Mandriva install which I'm trying to replace with Arch.
Now i've got to a root prompt by putting a 1 at the end of the kernel line to go to single user mode.
I'm at a loss what to do next.
What can I check from this root prompt to get it sorted?
Your help is appreciated
Thanks
Last edited by drum (2008-12-05 11:17:39)

thanks string,
I searched as you said and found that if I added to my xorg
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
EndSection
I could get everything working.
Much appreciated

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Hey all,
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Then you are not at the initial login screen - you are waking up the mac from having put the computer or display to sleep due to inactivity.
You are already logged in. are you certain you're entering the correct password?
Do you have another computer on the same network that you could try and login to your Mac via "ssh" from this other computer. If you do, login from the other computer in a terminal type window and "ssh username@IP_Address_of_Mac" and see if that helps (substitute username and ip address of the mac for the user and IP address of the mac). You can then do a "sudo restart" and try the safe boot and reboot. This assumes you had "Remote Logins" enabled in the Sharing System Preferences though so it may not work depending on how that is set now.
So you don't see any dots appear in the password field as you type - do you? Are you sure the Caps-Lock key is not active (your password is case sensitive so if the CapsLock is on accidentally then you will never be able to login this way until you turn it off). If the CapsLock LED is not working you have no way of knowing if it's on or off, so if one attempt at loggging in does not work (and you see dots appear in the password field as you type) then press the CapsLock key once and try again.
If you don't see any "dots" appear in the password box
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ps - in any event you can always press and hold down the power button for about 5 seconds to force a shutdown but this can cause problems and not recommended except as a last resort.

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[SOLVED] GNOME login screen freezes after 3 seconds

Hello,
today I installed Arch-Linux the first time. I had some issues during the installation (following https://wiki.archlinux.de/title/Anleitu … Einsteiger (its the german version, seems to differ a little from the english version)), but everything went good until I installed GNOME. Now the login screen freezes everytime after quite exactly 3 seconds, unless I press [strg]+[alt]+[f2] fast enough to switch in tty2. Then the screen will only freeze when I switch back to tty1. Once the screen is frozen, I can't switch to tty2 anymore.
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[SOLVED] Black screen halfway through boot before login screen appears

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