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Re: Can't log in: blank login screen after reconfigure
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Can't log in: blank login screen after reconfigure |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:19:27 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
Chris Marusich <address@hidden> skribis:
> * I tried pressing control+alt+F2 etc. to switch to different virtual
> tty, but it didn't work. The blank screen remained.
That sounds bad, like perhaps a KMS (“Kernel Mode Setting”) driver issue
or something.
Is the machine entirely dead at that point, or can you still log in via
SSH for instance?
> * 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.
Do /var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.0.log provide any useful hints?
As an aside, I’d recommend using QEMU (VirtualBox now requires a small
piece of non-free software to be built). QEMU is known to work well
with Xorg and all (e.g., ‘guix system vm gnu/system/example/desktop.tmpl’).
HTH!
Ludo’.