"SKvt" == Stefan Krusche via tde-users ml-migration-agent-AA1CGeSZfcB6iVtQByZ3Ah2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org writes:
Am Samstag, 26. September 2020 schrieb Uwe Brauer via tde-users:
Am Dienstag, 22. September 2020 schrieb Uwe Brauer via tde-users: If you can't log in at all, you can try with a rescue or live system from USB or such. Or start with option init=/bin/bash on linux command line to have at least a shell.
Ok, I can try this, next time, in the meantime I re installed it leaving the windows manager to lightdm
Yes, that seems to be safer.
The strange thing is: on my actual machine (running 16.04)
Now that I think more of it, ubuntu is running systemd, no?
Right, that explains it (the machine had 14.04 which was too old for example to install google-chrome (which I needed to access certain webpages of my university)
What I proposed applies to sysvinit-based systems like devuan et al. NOT to systemd-based systems like ubuntu
/etc/X11/default-display-manager
Is lightdm
I have absolutely no experience with systemd-based distros, but this makes me think you would need to look deeper into how systemd starts display-managers and so on…
I tried, but currently it is beyond me (I admit I have cursed the decision to move to systemd because it makes things much more opaque).
Debian is still sticking to sysvinit?
Regards
Uwe