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BrJPedro

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From: BR

Registered: 2018-03-20

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(Solved) I am unable to boot

Please someone help me!! :'(

First of all, sorry for my bad English

1- I set-up my system to autologin
2- I installed XFCE
3- I am using the default Trinity "login screen"

I've logout from my XFCE Session and I want to login in a Trinity default session. But I selected the wrong option in Session, I selected "Gnome (...) Splash Metacity" instead of TDE.

Now my notebook only shows me a pointer. Nothing more. Just a black screen and the mouse pointer.

Please help me!

There's someone that I could do to restore the previous session?

Last edited by BrJPedro (2018-03-21 03:16)

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João Pedro -o- @12h01

bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

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Re: (Solved) I am unable to boot

One solution which may help.
on your keyboard do Ctrl+Alt+f2
This should start a new session with a login prompt

Log in using your normal user and password.

You'll have a command line system so

sudo nano /etc/trinity/tdm/tdmrc

Use the Page Down key to get to the end of the file, then scroll up about 30 lines.
You'll see:-
# Core config for 1st local display
[X-:0-Core]
# The VT the X-server should run on; auto-assign if zero, don't assign if -1.
# Better leave it zero and use ServerVTs.
# Default is 0
#ServerVT=7
# Enable automatic login. USE WITH EXTREME CARE!
# Default is false
AutoLoginEnable=true
# If true, auto-login after logout. If false, auto-login is performed only
# when a display session starts up.

The bit you want is the AutologinEnable line which shows as 'true'.

Change that to false and then use Crtl o (that's Control and letter o) to save - it will show the file name in a line at the bottom so just press enter.
Then Ctrl X to exit

At the prompt do

sudo reboot

and you should wind up back at the normal login screen.

You can then reverse the process to re-enable autologin.

Last edited by bin (2018-03-20 07:42)

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: (Solved) I am unable to boot

@BrJPedro
You could also simplify the procedure posted above, thanks bin, just use a dedicated command in terminal:
$ sudo ctrl-autologin --disable
please see Q4OS documentation https://www.q4os.org/dqa007.html

BrJPedro

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From: BR

Registered: 2018-03-20

Posts: 75

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Re: (Solved) I am unable to boot

Thank you for the answers!

It worked! Thank you very much!

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João Pedro -o- @12h01