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tyder

Member

From: Oslo, Norway

Registered: 2016-12-19

Posts: 20  

Re: Display problems with 6.1.1 live

This problem may be solved. And it may seem a bit embarrassing.
Here is the current cmdline

root@devuan:~# cat /proc/cmdline
boot=live config quiet splash initrd=(hd0,1)/boot/dev611/initrd.img  bootfrom=/dev/sda3 live-media-path=dev611/live0 persistence persistence-path=dev611s/pers0 keyboard-layouts=no noautologin 

The only 'failsafe' directive left is noautologin. Because, it seems, the default user is not created. Without any user to serve, the display does not come up.
I should have suspected this yesterday, when only root login was accepted. But I couldn't believe it was that simple.
With the default user in place, I would guess this will work out of the box ;-)

fsmithred

Administrator

Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 2,854  

Re: Display problems with 6.1.1 live

The default user already exists in devuan live isos. In debian live isos, the default user is created during boot if the option 'config' is included in the command line. I think if you remove that, you'll have the default user again.

dzz

Member

From: Exmouth, South West England

Registered: 2016-12-01

Posts: 104  

Re: Display problems with 6.1.1 live

the default user is not created. Without any user to serve, the display does not come up

But the cmdline you posted does not contain 'username=devuan' ..

Therefore live-config script /lib/live/config/0130-slim was not told to autologin the already system-configured user 'devuan'!

This is verifiable. Boot without 'username=devuan' and with 'sysv-rc=slim' (disable slim, show a shell login prompt) Autologin is then irrelevant.

cat /etc/slim.conf | less

shows that 'default user' set to 'user' (debian-live standard default) and autologin is set to 'default user'. There is no user 'user' on this system.

Last edited by dzz (Today 20:54:52)