Re: firmware-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso Install

["D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea@arrl.net>]

I did something similar, instead of installing the default, I just didn't select Mate, leaving Debian Desktop and System Utilities selected .

I thought Debian Desktop Environment WAS Mate but it wasn't it was GNOME or something that looked just like it and it used a different display manager.

The same thing happened logging in, it went into a loop .

Cindy Sue, I also noticed what you did because I started logging in as root and using MATE, once inside I could use Mate Terminal and use my user account Document files.

I think I started to find the problem but I forget what I did but I was able to log into Mate at reboot after logging into Mate by using the root account and logging out  and rebooting.

This joy didn't last long because of problems with Xauthority files, they were causing problems.  Didier helped me with this, he said that logging in as root and running X can cause file ownership problems.  He advised doing chown to all files to my username,

I had just installed Joe's Window Manager (jwn) and now that I had two window managers, jwm and mate, I had to select one of them.

Now I could log into Mate.

So I purged / uninstalled jwn.

That's when I discovered that if I chose "Mate" instead of "default" I could log in.

So now I only have the problem with all the other consoles not talking!

Time for a few hours of sleep.

Best

David

On Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 04:52 Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> wrote:

What happens if desktop isn't installed but mate is installed?  Does mate
come up as the default once that's done?
I haven't tried that yet but could check it out.


On Sun, 22 Aug 2021, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:

> On 8/21/21, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea@arrl.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've had a while to try to get debian 11.0.0 installed and I wanted to
> > give a status report.
> >
> > First the most important part, I found a work around.
> >
> > If you select "MATE" instead of "Default" in the upper right corner,
> > you can log in with your username.
>
> < snipped >
>
> > Everything works well until booting into the system, the system goes
> > into an infinite loop when putting the user password in.
> >
> > Here's the work around, select "Mate" instead of "Default" in the
> > upper right of the log in screen, and it will work.
>
>
> I've been in that login loop myself a few times. In my case, it seems
> like it's always something about permissions. It seems like I've been
> able to fix it by logging in as root then deleting my user's
> .Xauthority file (one of those "dot" files under our users' home
> directories). In my case, it gets corrupted or something.
>
> In your case, I don't know if that would help or not. That's odd that
> selecting the Mate option instead of Default fixes it for you,
> especially if Mate *is* your default. If removing/renaming .Xauthority
> did work, maybe Default is corrupting that file for some reason.
>
> Which leads me to say that I do rename that .Xauthority file instead
> of deleting it. My usual go-to favorite is to attach the date that it
> was having problems.
>
> As an aside of how I ever came to poke at .Xauthority: When I first
> had problems with it, I would sort the user's home directory by date
> with newest on top.
>
> That .Xauthority file would show up early on top. I also knew that the
> .Xauthority file was created on the fly the first time I would log in
> to a new debootstrap'ed copy of Debian because my new users only had
> three dot files and that was not one of them.
>
> That made it feel safe to push the old .Xauthority out of the way to
> let the system create another new file on the fly. And it did just
> happen to work a few times before I stopped breaking that part of my
> setups for some reason.
>
> Here's a second aside. The last time I had problems, I renamed it with
> an apparent associated error that's not ringing a bell now. I attached
> "ipv4stdinError" (ipv4 stdin error) to that file instead of the date.
> Leaving that here in case it makes sense as a login error causative to
> Samuel or others.
>
> Cindy :)
>