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On 21/06/2021 16:17, Michael wrote: |
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> Have you tried using a Display Manager? Some of my systems won't work with |
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> Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get with them is a |
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> black screen. |
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I've had that on a couple of occasions, now, and I just thought I'd post |
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this in case anybody else hits it and wants to find the solution. |
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The first half of the fix is to ssh into the machine from somewhere else |
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(or if you're lucky and <ctrl>-<alt>-Fn is working, switch to a |
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different tty) and kill kwin or whatever. Basically kill whatever it |
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takes to get back to a tty. (This assumes you're not running a |
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greeter/graphical login.) |
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Then you should see a bunch of error messages etc. I'm not aware of any |
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way to get them logged, which would make life easier. |
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And they should tell you what's wrong, like in my case two different |
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problems on two different occasions - once I was missing the compositor, |
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once my video drivers weren't loaded. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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