But after the latest update it now will not login at all. I have been using xfce mostly since the 38 39 upgrade just because I couldn’t be bothered to try and fix it. After logging into xfce, I can usually logout and then go into Gnome, so i wasn’t suffering much,
But I am now, as I cannot login at all, and the only options are Gnome, Gnome classic and xfce
Hello @gmart72 ,
Sorry to hear about the login issue. Have you tried to get to a console? <Ctrl><Alt><F2> then login with your username and password. You should be able to launch Gnome from the commandline without entering the greeter (the graphical login screen). If this works, then you know the issue is with the greeter program and not Gnome the DE.
I have not been able to get that shortcut to work for many years, I thought it had been taken out? Nonetheless, I have rebuilt grub by using a live environment so I can now login as before i.e. login to xfce then logout and into Gnome if I require. I’m getting quite good at xfce because of this, and occasionally I check to see if I can go directly into Gnome but as of yesterday I am still unable. I blame the upgrade from 38 to 39 and I guess that a new install (if I could be bothered) would probably fix this.
Still thanks for your help. Eventually I will have the time to do the reinstall.
You can still open tty’s with <Ctrl><Alt><Fn> TTY1 being the one you’re using normally for login, then 2 to 12 could be accessed via their respective keyboard combo shortcuts.
So are you running Gnome using X or Wayland, because XFCE is X and doesn’t support wayland yet does it? They are working on full Wayland support though.
I agree that that was always how it used to be, but for some reason I haven’t been able to get it to work for a bit.
I am still having the login problems today now after work. I am currently in a live environment trying to reinstall grub again, though the previous method didn’t work sadly.
Did you try the Repair existing system option of troubleshooting on the installation media?
There is also a package I thought for the grub setup, it may be just as easy as reinstalling grub2-common or something like that.
There is also a GUI based grub2 customizer grub-customizer which claims to be a graphical grub2 settings manager, I have never used it.
And of course, the preferred way to make cli changes in grub grubby can be installed.
All of these ideas would be great if I could get into my system, but I can only get into the grub> command or a live environment, and neither is going anywhere.
Actually the live environment is allowing me to look at my system in Disks. I now know where it is and that it is EFI, though none of the grub rescue videos I have watched have anything yet…
Well I managed to get in eventually through the live environment and reinstalling grub. I had difficulties with chroot but it seemed happy to reinstall without and it worked.
I think I will take the opportunity to reinstall if this happens again. I still cannot get in except through xfce as described. No one on the internet seems to have the same problem and I just don’t have the geek level to fix it.
So why does an upgrade mess up grub? Who knows! At least it is fixed for now and I am backing up.
Thanks for the support