wifi-menu not present at ArchLinuxARM tty for asus c101 pa

[gm648]

Hi,

I tried to replicate a login loop for the asus c101 pa chromebook.

I succeeded in doing so using the following scripts, some moths ago...

Install
https://pastebin.com/UHen1K5L

Setup
https://pastebin.com/Z66nqX2e

... however, recently wifi-menu disappeared from ArchLinuxARM-gru-latest.tar.gz (see notes in install script).

Now I'm stumped.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks,

Miccy

[andrewboring]

Wifi-menu is part of the netctl package.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netctl

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'pacman -S netctl')

[summers]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('andrewboring', 'I')nstall the netctl package.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netctl

[moonman]

Neither "pacman -S netctl" (no wifi) nor "pacman -U netctl" fixed the problem as described.

The problem was the version of ArchLinuxARM-gru-latest.tar.gz that I downloaded, being packaged without netctl or dhcpcd (Although I can't reproduce this, I think it happened by right-clicking on the link and choosing "Save as..." and unfortunately I didn't keep the troll tarball)

I now find that downloading via curl provides a complete tarball and I have successfully reproduced the login loop, using the above scripts. I guess the moral of this saga is "check the .sig file first" before installing!

The loop seems to be linked to gdm as it "goes away" after editing /etc/gdm/custom.conf

After executing setup.sh my installation ends with the following steps:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
pacman -S base-devel
# choose option 22
# run visudo
# set passwords for new user and root

pacman -Syu
# reboot

pacman -S xf86-video-vesa xterm xorg-server gnome gdm
systemctl enable gdm.service
# reboot

')

What i end up with is a login loop: the correct password redirects back to login, after going blank for a moment.

I have installed ArchLinuxARM before and don't remember having to take any special actions to fix gdm.

Anyone know if I have to configure gdm in any way to fix this?

Many thanks for pointing it out if there is something obvious I am doing wrong here.