16 Mar
2018
16 Mar
'18
5:26 p.m.
Hi Felix, Thank you for your help.
On Friday 16 March 2018 17:02:17 Felix Miata wrote:
Baron composed on 2018-03-16 14:13 (UTC):
If I run this now, will I get anything useful ?
If I login with the root password, I get pages
and pages of what
I think maybe logs. At the end of this if I "StartX" I get my
normal desktop. At this point if I logout and hard boot the
machine, everything comes up as normal.
I haven't a clue what is going on here... Help !
Instead of startx, try
journalctl | grep failed
and see if it reports what failed. As others suggested, the problem is a systemd race
condition. Did
this start after an update to the current initrd, or after a update
that installed a new kernel? Do you have a boot menu that allows
you to select to boot with an older kernel, which if selected
behaves normally? If so, an initrd rebuild might make the problem
go away.
If Q4OS is a Plymouth user, you might try disabling it by adding to
cmdline
plymouth.enable=0
I did see something about "plymouth" when the pages of lines were
flashing by.
With or without plymouth, if you remove
"quiet" from the cmdline,
you might be able as boot proceeds to spot the initial mention of
the start job that is failing.
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Best Regards:
Baron