Re: buster: not reaching login screen on console
On 12/6/2019 10:25 PM, D. R. Evans wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote on 12/6/19 11:22 AM:
>> D. R. Evans composed on 2019-12-06 11:11 (UTC-0700):
>>
>>> I have a buster system that is failing ever to reach a login prompt on the
>>> console tty.
>>
>>> The last message on the screen is:
>>> A start job is running for Hold until boot process finished up
>>> followed by a timer that simply increases without end and says "no limit".
>>
>>> How do I find out what is causing this?
>>
>> After the last message appears, can you reach any of the other 5 vttys to find
>> waiting logins? Right away? Only after some delay of many seconds, or more than a
>> minute?
>>
>
> Nope, all just black.
>
> But I could log in via ssh, and started backing out recent changes (I'm not
> sure how long the problem had existed, as I don't normally look at the console
> screen once X has started).
>
> One of the changes was to switch to the Trinity desktop manager, and when I
> reverted to using sddm, the problem went away.
>
> I don't like sddm, but at least it allows the machine to reach a login screen,
> so I'll forget about trying to use tdm on that machine, and assume that the
> problem won't recur.
>
Given that you have access to the logs, that's your best clue to
understand what's going on.
--
John Doe
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