On 5/4/20 10:44 AM, Beartooth wrote:
On Sun, 03 May 2020 14:41:40 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by "the panels".
So I created an F 32 Mate live medium on another machine, and
managed to boot from that. As I see it, I can just install F 32 from live
medium; or I can get into the hard drive, find a/o figure out (with a lot
of help) what is wrong, fix it, and keep both my data and my arrangement
of panels and icons, which is fairly tedious (but safe) to set up from
scratch.
A reinstall will keep your home data, so all your files and settings
should still be intact after.
Figure out which entry is
the root partition. I'm going to assume it's called root and that
you're running as a user called "liveuser". If that's wrong, then
you'll need to adjust the following commands accordingly. Open a
terminal and cd to "/run/media/liveuser/root". Run "sudo chroot."
That gets "No such file or directory." I tried removing "/root"
from it, and tried "chroot." I got "missing operand."
Did you open the partition in the file browser first? It wouldn't have
helped without having the partition mounted, but I did also make a
mistake in that command. I missed the space, it should have been "chroot ."
Then try running "journalctl -b-1" and see if you can find an error or
some reason that your graphical interface isn't loading.
Both with that, and with a space between "b" and "-1", I got (in
bold) "Data from the specified boot (-1) is not available: No such boot
ID in journal"
That's because you're running that command on the live boot which won't
have any previous logs.
I'm a little concerned about what you think you messed up when running
in non-graphical mode earlier. Does using "3" not boot you to a login
prompt now?
Yes, it does. I must have said something badly.
Then let's skip the whole live boot thing and do it the easy way. :-)
Can you explain what you meant by "blank flashing panels"? It's quite
likely that we've been trying to solve the wrong problem. Do you get a
login screen? Can you login? If not, then does CTRL-ALT-F3 get you a
login prompt?
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