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 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. If I run this now, will I get anything useful ? > 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. -- Best Regards: Baron --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting