Linux Mint 19 booting to tty
Hi!
Having a problem where my laptop is booting into tty. I thought I had lost my root password yesterday and followed a tutorial to change it where I edited a line of code in the grub menu https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.wikih...-Linux%3famp=1 It did not boot into single user mode but started up normally. Now it is going straight to tty on startup and neither alt-ctrl-f6 or alt-ctrl-f7 get any response. Sorry if I haven't explained well, would really appreciate any help |
Ctrl- is only needed to escape from being in the GUI. When at tty1-6, only Alt-Fn is needed.
What happens when you try Ctrl-Alt-F[1-5] or Ctrl-Alt-F8? |
Why not reverse what you did to the grub menu?
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Thank you for the responses.
Alt-fn returns 'can't reactivate AUX port' Ctrl-alt-f1 - 5 changes the tty from 1-5. Ctrl-alt-f8 gives no response. Haven't been able to access grub with e on startup so I can't change the line back. |
The information in the link you posted explain how to change an existing password for the root user. Since Mint uses sudo and does not require creation of a root user/password during the install, did you after the installation create/enable root and create a password for the root user? If you did have root enabled with a password, I would expect the tutorial instructions to work.
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Runlevel returns N 5 Who -r returns run-level 5 2019-03-13 14:04 How can I post grub.cfg? Edit: Got to the gnu grub the line I edited seems to have reverted reading Linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-38-generic root=UUID=ce56655c-2a84-4928-bb15-940f24c0e948 ro quiet splash $vt_handoff |
what happens if you login with your username and then type startx
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xauth: time out in locking authority file home/user/.Xauthority (EE) Fatal server error: Could not create lock file in /tmp/.tX0-lock |
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Was able to access grub menu and tried starting in recovery mode. Since then it's giving me a graphic login which loops. Also tried clearing data but it's still giving me an error on installing that there isn't enough space. |
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