From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Stefan Huchler <stefan.huchler@mail.de>, 41178@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41178: can't log into X anymore ( polkit )
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 21:28:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eera78nh.fsf@devup.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blmvhhl4.fsf@mail.de>
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Stefan Huchler <stefan.huchler@mail.de> writes:
> shortly after installing X and making the first few changes setting the
> root password and boom I can't login into X anymore.
[...]
> Authentication needed [...] intel-backlight-helper and a password prompt
> that I can't hit on, and somethnig with polkit.
I've seen a similar failure when elogind or dbus failed to start.
Can you check the log files and see if there were problems with these
services when it failed? Or any other lines that could be interesting?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-23 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-10 16:37 bug#41178: can't log into X anymore ( polkit ) Stefan Huchler
2020-05-22 23:16 ` Stefan Huchler
2020-05-23 19:28 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2021-01-23 21:54 ` jbranso--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-01-23 22:04 ` jbranso--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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