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Login loop - Squares instead of letters in the username
After upgrading to Ubuntu 23.10, I got a login loop problem. Also when I try to login through the tty, typing in a user gets these rectangles instead of the letters. When entering numbers, they are ...
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Can't login after suspending Ubuntu, No tty login prompt either
I have installed Ubuntu 22.04 alongside Windows 11 on my Asus Vivobook 16x Notebook powered by Ryzen 5 series processor.
I noticed that if I suspend it or it gets locked automatically after screen is ...
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Why won't my tty1 let me login?
I have a raspberry pi 400, and earlier this week I was attempting to change some settings. When my computer rebooted, It showed the tty1 and asked for my login and password. I know both of these by ...
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tty frozen/no login on ubuntu 22.04
On Ubuntu 22.04 after upgrade I can no loger login using ctrl alt f5 or similar.
Instead I get a locked up screen showing the boot progress but no prompt for login.
In fact I have the same issue on ...
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TTY Login prompt text disappears after 30 seconds
we have an Ubuntu 20.04 which starts only with an TTY and no GUI.
After our customized /etc/issue is shown to the user the command prompt will be shown only for 30 seconds. The best solution should be ...
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Desktop environment missing
I had installed Radeon graphics drivers which messed up my system. It was unable to boot. So I went into the GRUB menu and uninstalled all the Radeon drivers, gave a nomodest login in the shell. After ...
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Stuck in TTY1 screen
I installed Ubuntu 22.10 yesterday. Today when I turned it on it shows Ubuntu version my computer name TTY1 asks for my computer login but it's not working it says
Dev loop12: unable to read RDB block ...
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Difference between F1 and F2 in Linux Consoles
I am using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
I was experimenting with the TTY consoles that are Ctrl+Fn+Alt+F3, F4, F5, and up. I noticed that F1 and F2 both seem to be the graphical desktop. F2 is the one that I ...
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how to add back Ubuntu 22 GUI login session
I run this command on my ubuntu 22 "sudo apt-get purge libelf-dev", then it removed lots of packages. but after that, my network is disconnected, I tried to re-connect the WIFI, but I cannot ...
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Can I switch to a different PTS session opened using SSH
I'm using ssh to connect to a Ubuntu Server VM running on my desktop from both the desktop and my laptop like this:
krzysztof@Alan: ~$ ▶ w
13:53:46 up 1 day, 18:03, 7 users, load average: 0.32, 0....
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modesetting driver with AccelMethod glamor - tty Problem
I switched my system (Xubuntu 20.04.05 LTS) from the intel driver to the modesetting driver with AccelMethod glamor. If I start my system, everything works well, the system shows still the graphics ...
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Weird log in problem with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
I've been trying to figure this one out all day, and I'm no closer, so I've come to seek ideas.
I have a server instance of 20.04 LTS running on a dell blade, it's ran for years with no problems, ...
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Prevent Ubuntu (GDM?) from locking when switching to another TTY
In TTY3 I use a simple window manager as my main working area, but sometimes I need to test stuff in a full Gnome environment, so I use it on TTY1, just as the default on a clean Ubuntu install.
But ...
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Cant login to tty on ubuntu 20.04, login incorrect and cant go to recovery
Probably /var does not have free space. It had happened before that I needed to empty /var. That is why it prompts to tty when it starts. I can't log in normally.
It says after the prompt,
`/dev/...
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Stuck at login screen tty1 (Ubuntu 20.04.2)
I am using Ubuntu via a virtual machine and every time I either exit saving the current estate or power it off, it always work when running the virtual machine again. After trying to install python3 ...
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TTY 1 opens everytime I want to login on ubuntu 21.10 with Gnome 40
Recently a weird thing is happening, every time I try to login into my user account, ubuntu opens something similar to a TTY, but it is not exactly a TTY.
So what exactly happens is, I boot up my ...
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tty1 and switch users not working in ubuntu 20.04
I very recently switched to ubuntu, and am having a problem with the switch users and the tty1, I've seen in a post here that tty1 is supposed to be the gui login screen and gui desktop on tty2. ...
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Stuck in tty1 login
In tty1 login after giving the username and password it shows the screen again asking for login and can't get rid of it. I tried using Ctrl+alt+f7 and others but it doesn't work
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Can't load UI or use TTY
Today when I tried to log into Ubuntu (20.04) I noticed multiple problems:
Login screen displayed with completely incorrect resolution.
When I type my password, getting an error Failed to start ...
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How can I log into a commandline session, without having to launch any desktop environment?
In an effort to preserve battery, I'd like to have a session type of just the commandline at login.
I do not want root.
I do not want to login to gnome and then switch to a ttyl, as I would still be ...
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Black screen with logon prompt on Raspberry Pi 3b+
I'm new To Ubuntu. I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my Raspberry Pi 3b+ with Raspberry Pi imager and it boots to this black login screen.
Ubuntu 20.04 Ubuntu tty1
ubuntu login:
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Ubuntu freeze at login page, no mouse and no keyboard response, blinking at tty login as well
I have a Ubuntu 18.04 installed and everything was working properly. I have an Nvidia Quadro GPU and I was in the process of installing my nvidia driver and then cuda toolkit. The already installed ...
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Xubuntu 19.10 with ZSH hangs after login in tty
I have oh-my-zsh installed on my Xubuntu 19.10. Sometimes, as (X)ubuntu usually does, it freezes together with the whole X server.
Therefore I wanted to switch to tty1. Once I provided my credentials, ...
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Change language in Ubuntu tty2 login mode
I have login problem of this kind:
A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes up (Xmin Xs/no limit)
Do when I press Alt+Shift+F2, so it going to login page and the problem is that ...
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Log into tty and do not launch gnome-shell
When working on my laptop I would like to be able to log in directly into a tty without launching the X server. This saves battery and is also pleasant on the eyes since the screen background is truly ...
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How does login get to startx
Looking at the output of 'ps ax', how does login get to startx? See below.
init starts /bin/login
login starts startx -- HOW? What file is executed to get to startx?
1297 1 Ss+ tty1 ...
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Can't login Ubuntu 18.04 after restart and write commands
After installing a package and remove it with apt-get, I restarted Ubuntu and can't log in again.
When I trying to write in any tty and recovery mode instead of character put square and can't write ...
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How to get out of tty1 when you don't know your login and password
I'm having trouble logging in to the console in Ubuntu 19.04. I need to enter a login and password. When I enter my username and password, the console rejects the login. Keys Ctrl+Alt+(F1-F12) don't ...
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lightdm fails to start
I bought a Dell Vostro 3583 with pre-installed Ubuntu 18.04 with gnome3. I wanted to use lightdm and Xfce so I ran:
sudo apt install xfce4 xfce4-goodies and some other packages
After configuring ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 hangs at “Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes.”
As per the title, I am facing this issue.
Followed the top answer in the following link:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/252603/debian-jessie-boot-hangs-at-started-update-utmp-about-system-...
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Only tty4 works in Ubuntu and that too remains busy reporting something
I am not able to switch on to other tty's except tty4. When I switch over to tty4, it's always busy reporting somthing like i2c_hid i2c_hid_get_input: incomplete report.
Reason that I need to ...
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cannot enter my password when login to the tty [duplicate]
My PC machine is in ubuntu 16.04.
I want to login the tty, However ,when I input my username and press the 'enter' button , I can't input my password straight after that.It seems that two 'enter's ...
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Kubuntu 18.04 not login from SDDM but from tty
I have installed Kubuntu 18.04 on my laptop (OMEN HP [17-w033dx
]) and today, just after enabling VT on the BIOS Setup and rebooting, Kubuntu not login from visual (SDDM) as usual. I disabled VT but ...
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Stuck in tty1, unable to log in (18.04 MATE)
I'm stuck in the black tty1 login screen.
I think I know why. I use MATE but wanted to try cinnamon, installed it, wasn't satisfied so I removed it again via
sudo apt remove cinnamon-desktop-...
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TTY login problem [duplicate]
OS: Lubuntu 16.04
I recently had a problem with login to TTY (1-6). When I press ENTER after the username a newline character seems to repeat every 3 seconds or so.
Halfway through typing the ...
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Weird login behavior in tty1-6 [duplicate]
I have a very peculiar problem with my ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to go to tty1 as always. And there is the classic screen that you have to login as always. But when I try to login this ...
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TTY doesn't wait for password
I upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04. When I press Ctrl+Alt+F3 I get the terminal which prompts for the username. When I type my username and press Enter, it doesn't wait for my password (its as if I ...
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Cannot Boot Ubuntu - TTY1 login loop
Upon removing a particular package, I think I removed some very important stuff from my Ubuntu 18.04.
When I login, I get the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS tty1 screen.
It prompts me to login.
I enter my username ...
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Problem with tty terminal login [duplicate]
I stuck at boot up sequence access so I open tty terminal by pressing ctrl + alt + F2. I have to login, but I forgot my login, I know only my password.
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Password typed in login manager appears as username in tty
The scenario I am asking about is this: when reaching the login screen after the boot process, I switch to tty2 and log in by typing my username and password. I then exit, getting back to the (...
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How can I configure Ubuntu to offer X logins on more than one virtual terminal after booting?
I have long wanted to do this and been stumped as to how.
I found a tantalising hint here:
https://www.maketecheasier.com/run-multiple-x-sessions-without-virtualization/
This is someone wanting to ...
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After upgrade ubuntu 18.04 changed from GUI to Terminal
After upgrading from Ubuntu 17.10 to 18.04 I am not able to login to the desktop environment. This screen shows after restarting:
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How do I access console from GDM ? (wayland)
When on GDM login screen, Ctrl+Alt+F3 ... F7 does not work.
After logging into GNOME desktop, then Ctrl+Alt+F1 will bring me to GDM, F2 back to GNOME, and F3 to F7 to a TTY terminal.
But before I log ...
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GDM not starting and I can't open TTY
I can't login to my ubuntu environment. It will get stuck on the purple screen and I can't even open TTY by using ctr+alt+F1-F5
I've read this: My computer boots to a black screen, what options do I ...
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Run TTY script every time I open a GUI terminal
When I log in to a TTY I get the following nice text:
Ubuntu 16.04.03 LTS
Log-in: username
Password:
Last log-in date/time
Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04.03 LTS
* Documentation:
* Management:
* Support:
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Stuck in tty1 login console
I am stuck in tty1 login console. I get the tty1 login screen after logging in the tty1 console with my username and password. It seems like it is in a loop. What shall I do?
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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS process stuck at tty login prompt
I just shutdown my device and on next launch instead of loading login screen it loads tty login screen
If I enter wrong credential it says incorrect login attempt but when I enter correct credential ...
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What is my login and password for command line?
Just recently got into Ubuntu and I am very unfamiliar with how this works. I was following some steps to install a GTX 750Ti driver and I couldn't get past the login when pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1.
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Failed to start session on 16.04 (CAN'T access terminal typing CTR+ALT+F1 either)
I installed updates for Ubuntu and was asked to reboot. Whenever I try and login in to my account I get a 'failed to start session' same goes for when I try to login as a guest. I can't get to the ...
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Run command after login from specific tty
I'd like to achieve this: 1) When user (anybody) logs in to tty1, then some specific command(s) will run automatically. 2) When user (anybody) logs in to other tty, then no command(s) will run ...
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