linux4noobs @programming.dev Vampiric_Luma @lemmy.ca 1 yr. ago

Log-in gui screen blank but usable?

Welcome :)

I'm on Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS and up to date.

I shutdown my computer with no problems last night. Today I decrypted my drive with the on-screen prompt and it followed into a solid-grey background; My 3 accounts were not displaying. Rebooting has done nothing regarding the problem. The only notable thing I've done is install drawio and thunderbird from the pop shop.

Despite this issue, I was able to press [Enter] and input my password successfully. Everything else seems to be running hunky-dory.

I read through my syslogs while scritching my chin, but I honestly have no idea what to look for this time. I scanned through my entire post-boot log entry to no avail, but I'm also a... linux noob.

Help please q.q

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Can you go to a TTY (CTRL+ALT+F2 for example), login there, and then show the output of journalctl -b 0?

You can share it online directly from your terminal by using the termbin service (https://termbin.com/ ), ie if you do:

journalctl -b 0 | sed -e 's/your_username/[censored_username]/gi' -e 's/your_hostname/[censored_hostname]/gi' | nc termbin.com 9999

then as a result you'll get a link of the form https://termbin.com/SOME_CHARACTERS that you can then share with us here.

You have to replace your_username and your_hostname with respectively your username and hostname inside the sed command there (basically a search & replace on the output of journalctl) so that they get censored out of the logs before they get shared on termbin.

Also, make sure you have netcat installed (otherwise you won't be able to use the nc command):

sudo apt-get install netcat
- Thank you for the response :)
  
  Do I change the bit, [censored_username], with my username or some unknown variant of it, or is that a command to censor the username?
  
  Those are what will replace your username and hostname as the goal is to have sed replace your username with censored_username (and same for hostname), so you should leave those as is.
I had the same issue last week after doing a kernel update. I thought it was a user error because I had been tinkering and trying out the new cosmic DE.

I didn’t try just pressing enter and typing my password, didn’t cross my mind. I ended up doing a fresh install and restoring my important files from a backup.

I’m curious to see what the issue is though

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