Felix Miata wrote on 12/6/19 11:22 AM: > D. R. Evans composed on 2019-12-06 11:11 (UTC-0700): > >> I have a buster system that is failing ever to reach a login prompt on the >> console tty. > >> The last message on the screen is: >> A start job is running for Hold until boot process finished up >> followed by a timer that simply increases without end and says "no limit". > >> How do I find out what is causing this? > > After the last message appears, can you reach any of the other 5 vttys to find > waiting logins? Right away? Only after some delay of many seconds, or more > than a > minute? >
Nope, all just black. But I could log in via ssh, and started backing out recent changes (I'm not sure how long the problem had existed, as I don't normally look at the console screen once X has started). One of the changes was to switch to the Trinity desktop manager, and when I reverted to using sddm, the problem went away. I don't like sddm, but at least it allows the machine to reach a login screen, so I'll forget about trying to use tdm on that machine, and assume that the problem won't recur. Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans
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