-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2017-07-23 07:43, songbird wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: >> >> Just finished installing Stretch, using a RAID1, LVM and >> encryption for home (passkey) and swap (random key). It is at >> the moment a basic installation with X-server-Xorg, but no DE >> yet. > > if you use the control-alt F1 - F? sequence do you get a login > prompt? (check F7 and F8 too)
I should have thought of that, but when I wrote my original post I was tired and frustrated. Thanks for the reminder. This morning I did as you suggested. Yes, ctrl-alt-F2 to F6 does open a console where I can log in one of them as my user and in another as root. So far I seem to be able to execute all the commands I need to or want to in both. For example, in my user I was able to run startx, which prodices a bluish hue screen with the Debian swirl. I can't go any further because I do not have a desktop environment yet. My next step is to install one and see what happens. Ctrl-alt-F7 and F8 open nothing, not surprising as F7 and above are normally reserved for graphical user interfaces (GUI), which I have not yet installed. Ctrl-alt-F1 shows the blank screen which appears at the end of the boot. I think the problem is that what appears on opening tty2 to tty5 should appear in tty1 but for some reason does not -- instead the blank screen. > >> As part of the boot it accepts my /home password, but I do not >> get the command line. I end up with a blue-grey screen. No input >> from mouse or keyboard is accepted. To close the computer I have >> to use the power switch. > > oh, this doesn't sound good, but since you don't describe your > keyboard or mouse type i'm not sure if you need to change something > in the bios or what for them to show up. check the bios if you > have settings that might help. use a different keyboard and/or > mouse to check that something shows up. Keyboard is fine; it has worked on another computer, I have nothing yet installed which uses the mouse. > your X setup may need adjusting. check /var/log/Xorg.0.log and > X*.log.old if you have no log files install rsyslog. Probably not necessary, but I shall see after the DE is installed. >> I can open it in recovery mode, and after I enter the root >> password I can get the command line as root. But I don't know >> what to do next to effect a rescue. From the root command line I >> can however close the computer properly with "shutdown -h now". >> >> I did notice when the computer was booting normally -- not in >> rescue mode -- the following lines loop many times until the >> computer gives up: >> >> Running /scripts/local-block Failed to connect to lvmetad Failed >> to find logical volume SOL1/swap_crypt >> >> According to several posts on line, this behaviour is a nuisance >> but not fatal. As some people suggested on line I tried to get >> rid of this nuisance by changing in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf >> use_lvmetad=1 to =0, but to no effect. >> >> If I have to I can live with the nuisance, but I cannot live >> without the command line. >> > i do know that at times some partitions are set up but may not be > found due to various issues. i make life simpler by using volume > labels and adjusting /etc/fstab to use those instead of UUIDs. Probably a good idea; I shall try it. > the problem i had was that the reformat of the swap partition got > rid of my label. so now if i do anything that touches the swap > partition i reset the label. Regards, Ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAll0zREACgkQlNlJzOkJmTekcgCfeFjlPRPXaxhhJq4TPwvLfl6K 0WwAmwb+xo26JnNg0/j4m40IL+ZJe7Hn =2QF1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
