My Login Screen Broke! [Solved]

[imu96]

when i turn my computer on, after the bios, instead of getting the login screen i get a black screen with a blinking under score. then pressed the windows start button it took me to some sort of login screen and i logged in but all i got was a command line. i typed in :

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startx

to try and get the gui working but it told me:

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fatal server error:

no screens found.

so how do i fix it?

[Stupot]

Did you recently upgrade a kernel? Most of the time this issue comes up, it is typically a driver issue.

Check out https://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?titl ... l_Switcher to see how to easily upgrade the kernel and graphics modules.

[wolfden]

Fixed title, Please do not have titles in All Caps.

[imu96]

Stupot: I have not upgraded my kernel in a while. However, when i ran

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equo deptest

it said that my repositories are old and that i needed to run

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equo update

when i ran this it told me

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Sending the update request to Entropy Services.
Repositories will be updated in background.
Have a nice day.

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However, I am not sure I trust that it is actually updating as I am pretty sure that the computer is not connected to the internet as it does not automatically connect and I am not sure how to connect it from the command line.

It also says that I need to install a couple of drivers. I am not sure how to do this as I am more used to apt-get than entropy and so the syntax thingy is different.

I also actually think that it is a driver problem because just before the problem occurred I ran an update packages thing in entropy and that may have somehow caused the driver problem. I have the same amount of kernels as I have always had and I haven't changed anything to do with the kernels (that I know of- who knows what was in those updates?).

[Jomiel]

Hi there,
to check your internet connection from the command line, you could use nmcli (networkmanager cli). But you can't configure a new internet connection with it. Only selecting and activating existing profiles is possible. To check active connections type:

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$ nmcli -p nm status

To list existing profiles type:

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$ nmcli -p con list

Then connect to a profile use the UUID from the desired profile:

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$ nmcli con up uuid yourUuidHere

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There is the possibility that your system broke by installing an update for your drivers.

cheers
Jomiel

[imu96]

yes! great! thank you Jomiel! I am now connected to the internet! now to do the other stuff...

Just one other question. How do I know when equo update has finished updating?

[imu96]

Okay. So I connected to the internet I was able to run equo update successfully as it told me that it was already up to date.

I then ran:

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equo deptest

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It told me:

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No packages found.

It told me this because I have already installed the other two packages it was telling me to install before.

I also ran :

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equo libtest

It told me:

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System is healthy

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My kernel is the same as it has always been with no new ones. Should I download and install a new one or would that be a waste of time and make things worse? The equo stuff appears to be working fine now but it still has not solved the problem of getting the GUI back! So... any new suggestions?

[Jomiel]

is there a line like "API mismatch" in the Ctrl+Alt+F12 Tab when you kill your loginmanager manually and restart it?
Are you using Nvidia or ATI?

cheers
Jomiel

[imu96]

when i hit ctrl alt f12 it does not say api mismatch or anything like that anywhere. the closest there is is

i am not sure whether i am using nvidia or ati. what is the command to find out?

by the way, just to confirm i am looking at the right ctrl alt f12 thingy, it is the thing that says:

<date> <time> localhost blah blah blah?

[batvink]

export DISPLAY=:0.0 ?