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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
To: Bone Baboon <bone.baboon@disroot.org>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Stuck at virtual terminal login
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 17:13:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <061994886b17dfd5296b2213e53d97ef4ea79934.camel@telenet.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874kg9mwj1.fsf@disroot.org>

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Bone Baboon schreef op di 13-04-2021 om 22:26 [-0400]:
> I am having trouble signing into a virtual terminal.  This issue is only
> happening on one computers I have Guix installed on.
> 
> If I follow these steps I can reproduce this issue after multiple
> install attempts.
> 
> 1) install Guix
>    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-1.2.0.i686-linux.iso.xz
> 2) reboot at the end of the install process
> 3) sign into a virtual terminal
> 4) do a pull and system reconfigure
> 5) reboot the system
> 6) decrypt root partition (keyboard is working)
> 
> When I get to a virtual terminal prompt the system seems to go
> unresponsive.

What is the latest output?

> As I type on the keyboard nothing shows up at the login
> prompt.  Alt + function key does not switch to another virtual
> terminal.

When I'm in a desktop environment, Alt + Function key doesn't work
(it does some other things), but Control + Alt + Function key does work.
Maybe something similar is the case here?

Greetings,
Maxime.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-25 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-14  2:26 Stuck at virtual terminal login Bone Baboon
2021-04-25 15:13 ` Maxime Devos [this message]
2021-04-26  5:37   ` Bone Baboon
2021-04-26 19:53     ` Maxime Devos

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