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| lotuspsychje | good morning | 02:59 |
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| guiverc | Any ideas given this... I suffered a power outage & Ubuntu noble system went down... On power return I `fsck` before I boot & thus any fs issues were fixed.. I boot & no longer get to DM to even let me login.. Any clues as to what my problem could be (I'm sure it's something in $HOME but what??) | 08:19 |
| guiverc | (I've re-installed non-destructively & get same issue; ubuntu desktop, xubuntu & lubuntu.. if I re-install & format partition all is good, so system is okay, but re-use my $HOME & no DM appears (gdm, lightdm & sddm same issue given I've installed lubuntu/xubuntu/ubuntu-desktop..; both noble & jammy dailies) | 08:20 |
| Bashing-om | guiverc: graphic's driver is one possible cause - sudo lshw -C display ; less /var/log/gpu-manager.log . | 08:31 |
| guiverc | an install of lubuntu works when without my /home, but fails when using my /home (I'm proposing; different dailes were used but I doubt that makes a difference) thus to me it's something in $HOME that corrupts the DM (since I'm not asked to gui login with xubuntu/ubuntu or lubuntu???) | 08:35 |
| guiverc | i can't see how graphic issue would be at play, unless my hardware is flaky (I can't rule that out... five install fails re-using /home, an install not using it works??) | 08:36 |
| guiverc | i'll add /home on the 'working' install next & reboot... that'll either 'prove' my thinking, or confound me! | 08:37 |
| guiverc | i just added /home & rebooted - login & all looks good... i'm missing something & have no idea what it is... maybe it's something like graphics?? I may re-install again tomorrow & compare (if it fails)... (as I set my systems as dual boot, I always have two areas to install into!) | 08:42 |
| guiverc | thanks Bashing-om ; I think I've busted my hypothesis | 08:43 |
| Bashing-om | guiverc: Another thought - startup scripts for the display messed up - .xsession ?? | 08:46 |
| guiverc | good thought; alas a somewhat new system & I don't make any such changes... though given install was noble; something done on a recent upgrade?? but in /home I suspect not (unless I missed something in my many installs) | 08:47 |
| Bashing-om | guiverc: same old home in each new install ? | 08:49 |
| guiverc | my fixation on /home though is likely faulty... the install today probably foramtted partition; prior installs did not; thus maybe corrupt fs unfixed by my fscks??? | 08:49 |
| guiverc | the failed installs (xubuntu/lubuntu/ubuntu-destkop noble + lubuntu jammy) all re-used /home & failed... | 08:49 |
| guiverc | i could try no-format of my other / & re-use of /home; then re-try of / (with format) & re-use /home; if first fails but second works it'll be fs issue on first / | 08:51 |
| guiverc | (my other / ; meaning other partition given my always setting up dual boot; shared /home on this box) | 08:52 |
| Bashing-om | guiverc: lightdm - my notes - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2210188 <- Can no longer log on. | 08:54 |
| arraybolt3 | I had login issues due to a filesystem being oddly mounted read-only. | 08:55 |
| arraybolt3 | guiverc: ^ | 08:55 |
| arraybolt3 | Doing a remount as read/write made the display manager almost immediately pop up | 08:56 |
| guiverc | none of the greeters were even showing here.. so wasn't login loop.. if it was as simple as RO mount (due to issues) & I missed that, I'd be real annoyed at myself (but I know I booted live more than once & fsck between installs; the /home is large & thus took awhile) | 08:56 |
| arraybolt3 | Is fstab wrong or corrupt by any chance? | 08:56 |
| guiverc | but I cannot rule out me making a mistake... (box is used as media player, not intended to be used with keyboard comfortably so change of error is higher!) | 08:57 |
| arraybolt3 | I ran into my issues on a Debian system where I forgot to make fstab (installed it with debootstrap and manual hacking) | 08:57 |
| guiverc | fstab would have been created by calamares (lubuntu), ubuntu-desktop-installer (ubuntu desktop) & ubiquity (xubuntu) so I doubt its fstab issue; fs issue though would be consistent | 08:58 |
| guiverc | (fs issue being my mistake as I see it, am just sure I checked for it) | 08:58 |
| arraybolt3 | hmm. If it ends up being not an FS issue, let me know, since then I have something to study | 08:58 |
| guiverc | given issue was created by power outage.. fs issue to me could have been expected (why I booted live before normal boot; out of habit) | 08:59 |
| guiverc | i filed a bug report on install failures.. but marked that incomplete when today's install worked (not re-using my /home) | 09:00 |
| guiverc | thanks for link Bashing-om (been reading) | 09:02 |
| Bashing-om | guiverc: This issue may take a while - real late here and I am off to bed - will catch up with you tomorrow time. | 09:04 |
| guiverc | thanks Bashing-om ... I'm just happy I have a working system now (after days of it not getting to DM & thus no GUI) | 09:04 |
| guiverc | I'll update the files on the home (it's days behind now) then do re-install testing (tomorrow probably for me) on my other system partition.. | 09:05 |
| Bashing-om | guiverc: Last couple of years I too GUI spoiled :P | 09:05 |
| guiverc | :) | 09:05 |
| guiverc | Our GNU/Linux systems are wonderul, alas so complex they can be confusing at times, but regardless they're wonderful ! | 09:06 |
| guiverc | Night Bashing-om , sleep well | 09:07 |
| Bashing-om | we discuss DM starting tomorrow :D | 09:07 |
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