[GTALUG] Virtual console 1 frozen..

[Jamon Camisso]

On 2020-10-29 18:01, Michael Galea via talk wrote:
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 used to reach a login prompt on the console, but my debian
> testing based box simply shows the booting process up to the
> "/dev/sdb1: clean, ..... " message, and is unresponsive.
> 
> All of the other virtual consoles work as expected, but I would still
> like to solve the problem.
> I have inspected journalctl logging during/after the last boot and
> nothing stands out.
> 
> Can anyone suggest anything?

Sounds like your system expects a graphical window manager on tty1 but
isn't running one?

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html should explain all
the ins and outs. You'll want to poke at systemd's getty.service and
possibly its logind.conf file as well.

Cheers, Jamon