Re: hangs at boot
On Thu 01 Dec 2022 at 13:22:11 (+0100), jd wrote:
> On 2022-12-01 04:14, David Wright wrote:
> > On Wed 30 Nov 2022 at 19:38:05 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > Have you considered the possibility it's *not* hung, but is in fact
> > > booted and working?
> > >
> > > Have you tried pressing Enter a few times to see if a new login prompt
> > > gets printed?
> >
> > If pressing Enter doesn't work, it might be that the "main" VC is
> > broken; perhaps try switching to another VC with Alt-→ and seeing
> > if a Login: prompt appears there.
>
> Pressing enter doesn't do anything, but I can switch VC. I get a login
> prompt on every VC but the first one. The network is up to, I get an
> ip-address and I can ping the internet. Neither sddm or kde starts
> though, nor does my home partition get mounted. In fact it doesn't
> even show up in /etc/fstab and I definitely configured it to get
> mounted on nvme0n1p1 during installation.
Presumably you logged in as root? Is there a /home directory at all?
If there is, does it contain anything, like a directory with two or
three dotfiles in it?
What are the contents of /etc/fstab?
Although /var/log/installer/partman contains the general layout of the
disk partitions (right near the end), it doesn't reflect the final
screen that you see in the d-i's partitioner. Do you have a record
of the latter? It might look something like this:
┌────────────────────────┤ [!!] Partition disks ├─────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ This is an overview of your currently configured partitions and mount │
│ points. Select a partition to modify its settings (file system, mount │
│ point, etc.), a free space to create partitions, or a device to │
│ initialize its partition table. │
│ │
│ Guided partitioning │
│ Configure software RAID │
│ Configure the Logical Volume Manager │
│ Configure encrypted volumes │
│ Configure iSCSI volumes │
│ │
│ SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 500.1 GB ATA WDC WD5000ABCD-0 │
│ > #1 primary 30.9 GB B F ext4 / │
│ > #2 primary 31.1 GB ext4 │
│ > #3 primary 434.1 GB K ext4 /home │
│ > #4 primary 4.0 GB swap │
│ SCSI5 (0,0,0) (sdc) - 2.0 GB Generic Flash Disk │
│ │
│ Undo changes to partitions │
│ Finish partitioning and write changes to disk ← selected │
│ │
│ <Go Back> │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
(In the case of this example, /home was being inherited from a previous
installation in the 2nd partition, hence the K(eep) rather than F(ormat).)
Close to the end of /var/log/installer/syslog, there should be a
section like:
$ grep -B1 -A10 -h 'Adding new group' /var/log/installer/syslog
Apr 17 01:42:21 user-setup: Adding user `auser' ...
Apr 17 01:42:21 user-setup: Adding new group `auser' (1000) ...
Apr 16 20:42:21 groupadd[29019]: group added to /etc/group: name=auser, GID=1000
Apr 16 20:42:21 groupadd[29019]: group added to /etc/gshadow: name=auser
Apr 16 20:42:21 groupadd[29019]: new group: name=auser, GID=1000
Apr 17 01:42:21 user-setup: Adding new user `auser' (1000) with group `auser' ...
Apr 16 20:42:21 useradd[29025]: new user: name=auser, UID=1000, GID=1000, home=/home/auser, shell=/bin/bash, from=none
Apr 17 01:42:21 user-setup: Creating home directory `/home/auser' ...
Apr 17 01:42:21 user-setup: Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...
Apr 16 20:42:21 usermod[29034]: change user 'auser' password
Apr 16 20:42:21 chfn[29041]: changed user 'auser' information
Apr 16 20:42:21 chpasswd[29050]: pam_unix(chpasswd:chauthtok): password changed for auser
$
If you don't have that, it may be that the installation didn't
complete correctly. Although you type the username and password near
the start of the installation, the d-i doesn't actually write it
on the disk until moments before you're asked to remove the
installation media.
Cheers,
David.
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