Ctrl-Alt-F1 used to reach a login prompt on the console, but my debian testing based box simply shows the booting process up to the "/dev/sdb1: clean, ..... " message, and is unresponsive. All of the other virtual consoles work as expected, but I would still like to solve the problem. I have inspected journalctl logging during/after the last boot and nothing stands out. Can anyone suggest anything? Thanks -- Michael Galea
On 2020-10-29 18:01, Michael Galea via talk wrote:
Ctrl-Alt-F1 used to reach a login prompt on the console, but my debian testing based box simply shows the booting process up to the "/dev/sdb1: clean, ..... " message, and is unresponsive.
All of the other virtual consoles work as expected, but I would still like to solve the problem. I have inspected journalctl logging during/after the last boot and nothing stands out.
Can anyone suggest anything?
Sounds like your system expects a graphical window manager on tty1 but isn't running one? http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html should explain all the ins and outs. You'll want to poke at systemd's getty.service and possibly its logind.conf file as well. Cheers, Jamon
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 06:01:51PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote:
Ctrl-Alt-F1 used to reach a login prompt on the console, but my debian testing based box simply shows the booting process up to the "/dev/sdb1: clean, ..... " message, and is unresponsive.
All of the other virtual consoles work as expected, but I would still like to solve the problem. I have inspected journalctl logging during/after the last boot and nothing stands out.
Can anyone suggest anything?
Which display manager do you have installed? I see a bug report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=953328 that sddm prevents tty1 from having a login prompt. It has not been fixed since it was reported in March for some reason, so likely to affect testing too. -- Len Sorensen
On 2020-10-30 10:00 a.m., Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 06:01:51PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote:
Ctrl-Alt-F1 used to reach a login prompt on the console, but my debian testing based box simply shows the booting process up to the "/dev/sdb1: clean, ..... " message, and is unresponsive.
All of the other virtual consoles work as expected, but I would still like to solve the problem. I have inspected journalctl logging during/after the last boot and nothing stands out.
Can anyone suggest anything?
Which display manager do you have installed?
I see a bug report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=953328 that sddm prevents tty1 from having a login prompt. It has not been fixed since it was reported in March for some reason, so likely to affect testing too.
I am using SDDM to launch kde, which is relevant. My other two graphical distributions are running lightdm, which winds up running on vt7. My /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service file details launching sddm after tty1 has a getty, so I'm confused as to why I don't actually get one. Oh, read the link you provided! Thanks! Applied fix listed there and I have tty01 back! -- Michael Galea
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