I have the same problem. All I can say at the moment is that slim+fvwm work for me as a stop-gap solution. I suspect the problem has to do with infinality (or with fonts, at any rate), but I can't be any more specific. Anyway, here's what "worked for me": (1) During the boot sequence, before gdm hangs, switch to a tty<#n> via ctrl-alt-F<#n> (2) Login as root (3) Disable gdm (#> systemctl disable gdm.service) (4) Enable slim (#> systemctl enable slim.service) (5) In ~/.xinitrc replace "exec gnome-session" with "exec fvwm" There are a few obvious alternatives available, such as booting from another media, mounting the filesystem and then doing (3) - (5) manually, possibly with different login/window managers. Cheers, T. On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 13:54 +1000, Dean Thomson wrote:
Probably best bet is to post this in the forum with any relevent systemd logs.
On 23/04/13 13:53, Magnus Therning wrote:
Hi,
I performed a large-ish update yesterday, gnome 3.8, linux kernel and a few other bits and bobs, which left my computer in an unbootable state. I still haven't any more details on why since I've left my other boot option at work. All I see is that the kernel boots and systemd is started but never progresses to a login prompt or GDM. I also don't get any of the virtual terminals.
Maybe this is enough for someone to point me in a direction for solving it. If it isn't ill get back with more details this evening when I have some other mean of booting the system.
/M