Re: Can't log in after Stretch to Buster upgrade
On Wed Sep 2 21:32:55 2020 Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 11:13:30AM -0700, cgibbs@surfnaked.ca
wrote:
>
>> The Buster upgrade seemed to work OK. I re-booted and got to my
>> xfce login screen. But when I entered my user ID and password,
>> the screen blanked for a second or so, then came back to a blank
>> login screen.
>
> Use ctrl-alt-F3 to switch to a virtual console and attempt to log
in
> there, then examine your logs to see if there are any hints as to
> anything that has failed to start?
>
> I am not an xfce user so hopefully one of them will be along
shortly
> to tell you which log files to look in for likely answers, but you
> could start with /var/log/syslog and /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
Thanks - I forgot the ctl-alt-Fn trick. That makes it much easier to
look
at the logs than booting a CD into rescue mode. There's also some
sort of problem with openssh-server which I can't resolve by removing
and re-installing, but I'd just as soon leave that one until I get
xfce logins
working. Yes, my makefiles can still compile the programs I'm working
on,
but I can't bring up VirtualBox to build the Windows versions.
I'll continue puttering for a few more days - maybe others will have
some ideas. But if I don't get it working by next week, I'm going to
wipe my root partition and install Buster from scratch. The time I'll
spend re-installing the packages I use will have been well exceeded
by the time I've been spending trying to fix my current broken system.
--
cgibbs@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
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