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List:       freebsd-emulation
Subject:    How to break to console on Mint Linux VM
From:       Kevin Oberman <rkoberman () gmail ! com>
Date:       2023-04-30 1:32:18
Message-ID: CAN6yY1uVXynT8c=sGGcWU+c5s7bNp4j6NA5qhLf2QWUaWohCGw () mail ! gmail ! com
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This morning I updated my Mint Mate VM and rebooted as directed. The system
came up to the login screen and I entered the password. The screen expanded
to its normal size, but the login screen just appeared again. Any entry of
the password led me nowhere. I tried to boot headless, but could find no
way to get to a login prompt.

The system just returned:
ptavv> VBoxManage startvm Mint --type headless
Waiting for VM "Mint" to power on...
VM "Mint" has been successfully started.
ptavv>

I am not a Linux expert and I'm mostly clueless about admin since systemd,
and I don't make much use of this VM, but it is handy now and then.

Can anyone provide a clue on how to try to rescue the system? Clearly,
something is causing my session to exit on startup, but I have no idea what
and, without command line access, I'm unlikely to find it
-- 
Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683

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<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small" \
class="gmail_default">This morning I updated my Mint Mate VM and rebooted as \
directed. The system came up to the login screen and I entered the password. The \
screen expanded to its normal size, but the login screen just appeared again. Any \
entry of the password led me nowhere. I tried to boot headless, but could find no way \
to get to a login prompt.</div><div \
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small" \
class="gmail_default"><br></div><div \
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">The \
system just returned:</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small" \
class="gmail_default">ptavv&gt; VBoxManage startvm Mint --type headless<br>Waiting \
for VM &quot;Mint&quot; to power on...<br>VM &quot;Mint&quot; has been successfully \
started.<br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small" \
class="gmail_default">ptavv&gt; </div><div \
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small" \
class="gmail_default"><br></div><div \
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">I am not \
a Linux expert and I&#39;m mostly clueless about admin since systemd, and I don&#39;t \
make much use of this VM, but it is handy now and then.</div><div \
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small" \
class="gmail_default"><br></div><div \
style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Can \
anyone provide a clue on how to try to rescue the system? Clearly, something is \
causing my session to exit on startup, but I have no idea what and, without command \
line access, I&#39;m unlikely to find it<br></div><span \
class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" \
data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div \
dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network \
Engineer<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:rkoberman@gmail.com" \
target="_blank">rkoberman@gmail.com</a><br></div><div>PGP Fingerprint: \
D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>




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