[GTALUG] Virtual console 1 frozen..

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 06:01:51PM -0400, 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?

Which display manager do you have installed?

I see a bug report
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=953328 that sddm
prevents tty1 from having a login prompt.  It has not been fixed since
it was reported in March for some reason, so likely to affect testing too.

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Len Sorensen