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Re: Boot Problem

On 12/5/23 08:05, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I have Bookworm installed on a 1TB SSD. When I attempted logging this morning I failed! Rather than opening my XFCE desktop I was sent back tot he login screen, over and over and ................. I got the same result attempting to login as root. I have to assume that grub has been corrupted>
As it happens I also have Bookworm installed on a second SSD on my platform. I'm there sending this email
I have Grub Customizer installed in both. I have also just downloaded and burned debian-12-2-0-ams64.
I am very nervous about messing with the OS. What might be my best course of action to fix the problem (short of reinstalling)? 

Thanks in advance




> On 12/05/2023 12:47 PM, Tom Furie wrote:
>> When you say "back to the login screen", do you mean back to a graphical
>> login screen, or to a text console login screen?

On 12/5/23 09:56, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> Xfce4 graphical login screen
XFCE is the desktop environment. The graphical login manager is another program (lightdm?). 


On 12/5/23 10:02, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> I've attached the log. I hope that someone can tell me what the problem is. 
>
> Thanks inn advance.


Searching Xorg.0.log for "error", I see one comment and no error messages.


We need to know the context that created the attached file:

1.  What OS instance generated it?  How did you obtain the file?
2. What happened when? E.g. when was the graphical desktop manager displayed? When did you try to login? More than once? How and when did you shut down the machine? 


On 12/5/23 10:33, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> I decided to try something. I logged in to the rescue  mode as root and
> entered startx at the prompt. This generated the error:
>
> Unable to contact settings server
> failed to execute child process "dbus-launch" (No such file or directory)


That looks like a meaningful clue.


On 12/5/23 12:07, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> My Os is up to date and running the version XFCE4
>
> I've attached the log files that i could find. I hope that it will help.


Searching Xorg.0.log for "error", I see one comment and no error messages.
Search Xsession-errors for "error", I do see error messages that may be meaningful clues.
If you have the expertise to "find the needle in the haystack" and "put Humpty Dumpty back together again", then go for it.
Otherwise,d o you have a recent image of your OS disk (e.g. dd(1), Clonezilla)? If so, restore the most recent image onto a blank drive. If not, do a fresh install onto a blank drive and start taking images on a regular basis. Once you have a recovered/renewed OS drive, mount the damaged drive read-only and recover settings, data, etc.. Take an image of the OS disk, and backup your configuration settings and data, when you are done. 


David
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