this page may be of help to you: Ubuntu wiki <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NumLock>
On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:32 AM, flocculant <floccul...@gmx.co.uk> wrote: > First - could you not get to recovery rather than ssh? > > Anyway - I have > > /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/90-numlock.conf > > [Seat:*] > greeter-setup-script=/usr/bin/numlockx on > > Obviously have numlockx installed. I've found that numlock at the keyboard > settings makes no difference at all to login screen. > > > > On 01/12/16 03:50, Len Philpot wrote: > > ...and after nearly 20 years in IT (most of that on *nix) I should have > known better, but... :-) > > Lesson: Be careful what you put in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. It can > prevent login. > > Backstory: I applied updates as prompted tonight and after rebooting, it > (16.04.1 LTS) came up to the teal boot splash with the rotating circle and > did... nothing. No login prompt and no combination of Ctrl+Alt+Fx would > give me a console prompt. > > But I was able to SSH in from my laptop! There were lots of messages in > /var/log/syslog about lightdm failing to start (tell me something I don't > know!) and 'systemctl status lightdm.service' confirmed it was down. There > were also a couple of messages about not being able to load > /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf due to an entry not being in a group (or > something like that - Not on the box now to check). > > Anyway, when I took a look at lightdm.conf, there was a "numlockx" line > (the only one) I had forgotten about putting there a few days ago... from > unverified online advice. :-/ I was trying to get number lock to turn on > automatically, but obviously that's not the way to do it! :-) I deleted > (the otherwise empty) lightdm.conf and voila...! It works great again. > > Once again, I should have asked the question: What did you change last? > (only this time of myself). > > Speaking of number lock: Is there a way to reliably and safely enable it > at login? > > Thanks. > > -- > Len Philpot > Sent from EPIM Pro > > > > > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users > > -- your computer got you down Take a look here: http://www.powtoon.com/embed/fBFHM8qZtgf/
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