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Raspberry Pi - cannot login to X session

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• Started 9 years ago by latenights
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   latenights
   

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   On a Raspberry Pi B, I installed slitaz-rpi-desktop-20140329 onto a 2GB SD card. It boots then I get the GUI login screen. When I enter my root and my password, the screen blanks for several seconds and then shows the login screen again. If I CTRL-ALT-F1 to get the text screen then I can log in as root. If I CTRL-ALT-F7 back to X, it shows the login screen again. I cannot get past the login screen.

   I looked around and I didn't find anything useful, so I assume it might have something to do with my monitor. I am using a newly purchased monitor of 1600x900 resolution. I assume that since I see a graphical login screen, X windows has accepted my monitor.

   I looked in /etc/X11/xorg.conf has only a few comment lines. The subdirectory xorg.conf.d has other files but the 50-Monitor.conf is 0 bytes.

   EDIT: I tried a different monitor with resolution 1920 x 1200 and still have this problem.

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   dae87
   

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   i am having somewhat similar problem. i cannot enter anything, it looks like my keyboard is not detected. light indicator doesn't flash when i press numlock. i works with noob.

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   geev03
   

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   I have the old 256MB RAM Raspberry Pi , and didn't experience such problems.

   Please check this link for a screen shot >> http://goo.gl/3SMPY3

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   I had a similar problem! I back spaced over tux and entered root as the user and root as the password. The login compleated. When I did a cat on /etc/group I did not find tux. I actually did: 'adduser frank' and created frank. In /home there was no subdirectory tux, since there was no user 'tux'. Going to ctrl-alt-F1 and trying to login as frank generated an error message. I had copied some "dot files" into frank from root and had not changed the owner on them. I also needed the ".xinitrc" file from root. It should also be copied to /etc/skel/. When I tried to login the error message was something like "access denied". Using root I went into /home/frank and did: 'ls -al' and saw that some of my files were still owned by root, so then did: 'chown -Rv frank:frank .*' and then did 'ls -al' again and all of my "dot files" were now owned by frank. By using a text terminal one can sometimes see where the problem is and then start from that point. When I login (GUI) as 'frank' I still have some items that don't work, but am sure all I need to do is find the item to add to some file or add some "dot file". I have the same sort of problem with trying to login as "tux" in "Slitaz-5.0-rc2" but will make another post on it. I finally did get it to login! Frank, AC0XL.

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   pirandr
   

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   I've noticed quite a few oddities with the 20140329 version too. For some of it, I thought it was just me because I'm using a USB key instead of only an SD Card. I think its because cp -a doesn't always set the right permissions but I'm not sure. (In that case, maybe it should be switched to cpio archives?)

   I've built the latest version and tested it just now. It seems to work without modification for me (except the part for using a USB key). You can get it here

   https://github.com/pirandr/slitaz-arm/

   Its the file slitaz-rpi-desktop-20140830.tar.bz2 unless you want the no-desktop base flavour (built a few days ago), in which case you should get slitaz-rpi-base-20140823.tar.bz2

   For both versions, on the first boot, the post-install script asks you a few questions.

   Posted 9 years ago #
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   latenights
   

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   slitaz-rpi-desktop-20140830.tar.bz2 works and I now have the X-windows GUI screen. Thanks!

   Posted 9 years ago #

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