From: "Björn Höfling" <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can't log in: blank login screen after reconfigure
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 18:01:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181021180113.7254f981@alma-ubu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftx0qv8w.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 12:21:51 -0700
Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently ran "guix pull" and then "guix system reconfigure" on a
> GuixSD installation in a VirtualBox VM. Since doing that, I can't log
> in. While booting, everything proceeds as usual, with normal output,
> until the SLiM login screen is supposed to appear. But instead of the
> SLiM login screen, I get a blank screen with a small white cursor in
> the upper left, and I can't log in.
>
> Has anyone seen anything like this in the past? Here are some
> observations I've made about the situation:
>
> * GuixSD shuts down normally if I issue the "shutdown signal" from
> VirtualBox. This indicates the OS is actually still running.
>
> * I waited over 8 hours, and the login screen did not appear.
>
> * I tried blind-typing my user name and password, but the blank screen
> remained.
>
> * When I boot from the previous system generation, there is no
> problem.
>
> * When I replace SLiM with SDDM in my OS configuration and
> reconfigure, the same problem occurs.
>
> * However, one time only, while trying to boot using SDDM instead of
> SLiM, I got to the SDDM login screen. But when I typed in my
> username and password and hit enter, I received the same blank screen
> as before and ultimately could not log in. Every other time I've
> booted the VM, I didn't even get to the SDDM login screen, so I don't
> know why I was able to reach the login screen that one time.
>
> * I tried pressing control+alt+F2 etc. to switch to different virtual
> tty, but it didn't work. The blank screen remained.
>
> * I examined various system logs, but I could not find anything that
> jumped out at me as causing the problem. It's entirely possible I
> missed something important, though; I just checked a few places.
>
> There is more that I could try - for example, I could try starting an
> ssh server in my VM and logging in that way. I could also try
> drilling deeper into the X server logs, since that seems like the
> obvious next step, since the problem occurs for both SDDM and SLiM.
> I could also try reinstalling GuixSD in a new VM. But I haven't
> tried any of this yet due to lack of time.
>
> If anyone has any advice or has seen this before, please let me know.
> Thank you!
>
Hi Chris,
to be honest, I have no idea what SlimD and SDDM is.
I'm using a configuration containing a %desktop-services with
xfce-desktop-service added.
I just guix pulled, guix system reconfigured and be on:
2c17bd7b2955beef4130d11b33e07e4fb3b234dc
and it works for me, I see a login, can login, XFCE is working
afterwords.
If I can try out anything specific for you, let me know.
Björn
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-21 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-20 19:21 Can't log in: blank login screen after reconfigure Chris Marusich
2018-10-21 9:11 ` znavko
2018-10-21 20:11 ` Chris Marusich
2018-10-21 16:01 ` Björn Höfling [this message]
2018-10-21 18:33 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-10-24 14:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
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