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random01

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Registered: 2020-06-28

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When booting an identification message appears

Hi! New user here. I've got an old notebook HP550. I downloaded, from the legacy releases page, the Q4OS Scorpion and all seem to work fine except for one issue. Autologin doesn't seem to work. I set autologin, as described here in the forum, by the command line. The thing is that when I boot my computer a message appears:

Identification [username]
A critical mistake occurred. Please check the log file of TDM for further information or contact the administrator of your system.

(I translated it because it appeared in my language.)
Then I press "okay" and it directs me on the login screen, where the users accounts are, and I'm logging in. I've got only one user account. I thought I did something wrong so I re-installed Q4OS but it happened again! For the record, I haven't set a password. It isn't much of a problem because I can still login, yet I want to know if there's something I can do to solve the problem.

q4osteam

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Re: When booting an identification message appears

What installation media did you use ?

I set autologin, as described here in the forum, by the command line.

Please post the exact command you have performed.

random01

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Re: When booting an identification message appears

According to the answers of the post by the title: "disable automatic logon [solved]"
I used the command: $ sudo ctrl-autologin --help
and it went like this:
adminq@q4os-desktop:~$ sudo ctrl-autologin --help
Usage1: ctrl-autologin --disable
Usage2: ctrl-autologin --enable [username] [--locking]
adminq@q4os-desktop:~$ sudo su
root@q4os-desktop:/home/adminq# ctrl-autologin --enable [username] [--locking]
Auto-login enabled; User: [username]; Locking: false; Desktop: trinity.desktop
root@q4os-desktop:/home/adminq#

random01

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Re: When booting an identification message appears

What installation media did you use ?

I think you mean the cd I used to burn the iso image of the operating system

q4osteam

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Re: When booting an identification message appears

Anyway, we can recommend you to install the current stable Q4OS-3 Centaurus on your machine. You should rather use "sudo" command to execute a command as a superuser.

# ctrl-autologin --enable [username] [--locking]

Did you substitute the "[username]" with your real Unix user name ? So the command should look for example like this:

sudo ctrl-autologin --enable john

I think you mean the cd I used to burn the iso image of the operating system

Yes

random01

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Re: When booting an identification message appears

Ohh, thank you I was doing something really stupid
Now that I've put my name in the autologin command there's no error. Thank you very much!!