From nobody Sun Apr 30 01:32:18 2023 X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4Q883S3Gnmz48X5x for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2023 01:32:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw1-x112f.google.com (mail-yw1-x112f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::112f]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "GTS CA 1D4" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4Q883R4Bp2z48lX for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2023 01:32:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20221208 header.b=LpPpycnW; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of kob6558@gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:4864:20::112f as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=kob6558@gmail.com; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com Received: by mail-yw1-x112f.google.com with SMTP id 00721157ae682-559eae63801so11821137b3.2 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2023 18:32:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20221208; t=1682818354; x=1685410354; h=to:subject:message-id:date:from:mime-version:from:to:cc:subject :date:message-id:reply-to; bh=u79ufKu8mAiGs8sQfd43l3/Mj/0hsSSFi0MXKPgLfcs=; b=LpPpycnWzz80ZOVlw0uBshvjFBFdDSp/AVLmrFcr14PSLTRphSnv/a4dB0/tgCm/Re xsbp4GLiugbJyk4SRNnyZXo/RVCThLe7EPWueLdV3y62UcNUoL0woBiTnKD538wI9Jeg 8jkaIs0Y98/wRDwr2qjIfQw55PS3JQqRd6Euv0ZQT3HY5IVsya7kOAR6Rz7W1WHTaUrd i/fTnXfXxLu+NQT60Az+j3VE95pq1vMdeHV82ioZdC6nTRR14L4N2CWD94ii5ZZVL/sG q6rCdqfFyHFGAT4isk7FgYqAibf9baXE9dk8mtOzdt1qbwDB0tRUyzqvXzDnGrvRx3xM ZhyA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20221208; t=1682818354; x=1685410354; h=to:subject:message-id:date:from:mime-version:x-gm-message-state :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=u79ufKu8mAiGs8sQfd43l3/Mj/0hsSSFi0MXKPgLfcs=; b=ASSMgIqIdT30N5JwoH5jkFqzyBC7OOF1ft2xe2mu2qRMNw3raMAW582tJiKS3d9Wsw GB9Gou3tj1aLAda46YLXp3w6kvjrd4jzByurzDLdLwGQZMqz6J/qmnyicsgSb6prAIFG nKAz4d0VFGhDp9/h1Av9RgjET8pa+m+RCyvGh/vb+SprZfihmIH1ebFxY7T/axFDpcRd ai+xl+lii1UJzDWIReIOl02pegJormfjtxpWZ1E7tBZCZUTeMlewvNMsHfx6tSFi7Oef tWDcXjegfKdRrXnhocm+C52Yt8dINwiwIxcvY6tihHIZgJfX8MWdcKzJncM1V8+7xvs6 xtcw== X-Gm-Message-State: AC+VfDyOygn+CiP+hd+ELkAnUNFF5UA8MrDSL3lDpUWY2wV3Cw7R1K/0 qF0wH8Rek0K1OX9fSACOm97sVd2IMIZc41vK58/E0r3t4Q8= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACHHUZ6wWGyaLCZPj+vSHrgyawiayHrXlFafX5WMkbehbdCOvjQpt3Sps2xOU/4LHUP0GHXHGfAD8T/xfGa7e4P4GeU= X-Received: by 2002:a0d:f1c3:0:b0:55a:7c7:6ff7 with SMTP id a186-20020a0df1c3000000b0055a07c76ff7mr1507521ywf.11.1682818354319; Sat, 29 Apr 2023 18:32:34 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-emulation List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Kevin Oberman Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 18:32:18 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: How to break to console on Mint Linux VM To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000003b148005fa83ae1b" X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.70 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-0.997]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[gmail.com,none]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[rkoberman@gmail.com,kob6558@gmail.com]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip6:2607:f8b0:4000::/36]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[gmail.com:s=20221208]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[multipart/alternative,text/plain]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_FROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[2607:f8b0:4864:20::112f:from]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[rkoberman@gmail.com,kob6558@gmail.com]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[gmail.com:+]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROMTLD(0.00)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DWL_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[gmail.com:dkim]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_ENVFROM(0.00)[gmail.com]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+,2:~]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2607:f8b0::/32, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4Q883R4Bp2z48lX X-Spamd-Bar: --- X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N --0000000000003b148005fa83ae1b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" This morning I updated my Mint Mate VM and rebooted as directed. The system came up to the login screen and I entered the password. The screen expanded to its normal size, but the login screen just appeared again. Any entry of the password led me nowhere. I tried to boot headless, but could find no way to get to a login prompt. The system just returned: ptavv> VBoxManage startvm Mint --type headless Waiting for VM "Mint" to power on... VM "Mint" has been successfully started. ptavv> I am not a Linux expert and I'm mostly clueless about admin since systemd, and I don't make much use of this VM, but it is handy now and then. Can anyone provide a clue on how to try to rescue the system? Clearly, something is causing my session to exit on startup, but I have no idea what and, without command line access, I'm unlikely to find it -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 --0000000000003b148005fa83ae1b Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
This morning I updated my Mint Mate VM and reboo= ted as directed. The system came up to the login screen and I entered the p= assword. The screen expanded to its normal size, but the login screen just = appeared again. Any entry of the password led me nowhere. I tried to boot h= eadless, but could find no way to get to a login prompt.
The system just returned:
ptavv> VBoxM= anage startvm Mint --type headless
Waiting for VM "Mint" to po= wer on...
VM "Mint" has been successfully started.
ptavv>

I am not a Linux expe= rt and I'm mostly clueless about admin since systemd, and I don't m= ake much use of this VM, but it is handy now and then.

<= /div>
Can anyone provide a clue on how to try to rescue the system= ? Clearly, something is causing my session to exit on startup, but I have n= o idea what and, without command line access, I'm unlikely to find it
--
Kev= in Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com<= /a>
PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683=
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The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users,
which need special attention. These represent problem reports covering
all versions including experimental development code and obsolete releases.

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------------+-----------+---------------------------------------------------
New         |    269934 | emulators/qemu-user-static does not support capab

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The > system came up to the login screen and I entered the password. The > screen expanded to its normal size, but the login screen just appeared > again. Any entry of the password led me nowhere. I tried to boot > headless, but could find no way to get to a login prompt. > > The system just returned: > ptavv> VBoxManage startvm Mint --type headless > Waiting for VM "Mint" to power on... > VM "Mint" has been successfully started. > ptavv> > > I am not a Linux expert and I'm mostly clueless about admin since > systemd, and I don't make much use of this VM, but it is handy now and > then. > > Can anyone provide a clue on how to try to rescue the system? Clearly, > something is causing my session to exit on startup, but I have no idea > what and, without command line access, I'm unlikely to find it > -- > Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer > E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com > PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 --------------ev37qBXuPV206LDBv3GAUDrI Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Mount the Mint Mate VM as a secondary disk on some convenient VM and edit the password file to blank the password then dismount it and attempt to restart it again.  You might also edit ssh config to turn on ssh so you can ssh into it once it's started.  Or edit the X configs to get rid of X and boot to a command line login (I assume it's booting to X login)

virtual machine - Mounting another VM's .vdi in VirtualBox - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

Ted

On 4/29/2023 6:32 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
This morning I updated my Mint Mate VM and rebooted as directed. The system came up to the login screen and I entered the password. The screen expanded to its normal size, but the login screen just appeared again. Any entry of the password led me nowhere. I tried to boot headless, but could find no way to get to a login prompt.

The system just returned:
ptavv> VBoxManage startvm Mint --type headless
Waiting for VM "Mint" to power on...
VM "Mint" has been successfully started.
ptavv>

I am not a Linux expert and I'm mostly clueless about admin since systemd, and I don't make much use of this VM, but it is handy now and then.

Can anyone provide a clue on how to try to rescue the system? Clearly, something is causing my session to exit on startup, but I have no idea what and, without command line access, I'm unlikely to find it
--
Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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--------------ev37qBXuPV206LDBv3GAUDrI-- From nobody Mon May 1 16:17:27 2023 X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4Q97fK4tstz48jq9 for ; Mon, 1 May 2023 16:17:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yb1-xb2b.google.com (mail-yb1-xb2b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::b2b]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "GTS CA 1D4" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4Q97fJ5Gj8z3xdM for ; Mon, 1 May 2023 16:17:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: by mail-yb1-xb2b.google.com with SMTP id 3f1490d57ef6-b9a6eec8611so20463109276.0 for ; Mon, 01 May 2023 09:17:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20221208; t=1682957864; x=1685549864; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=0Nm5wzlZGrrH866jNaymkdIkGnspamP+WzxHsR77NHQ=; b=qotNHMEErIhY3Db261ScMzUietRPF9en6nQbOMZYw2+DBDAPEFRMxRDLpb42bC67PA ybRL4zBWj/Bl6QFvREJ1b4bun4qmxUEXFuTy3EfCCTLyiQLuKvoQe5Av08SVfwc534GQ 0sOI93B6yKOWZLdv6LxCtjk9MF3zOfmSOKHCdMgJc8j/xuIlVJp4W2axRGh+uKayCD6N 6BuSdV6W8ijIFeRIYn61ZAsnWGiQ5WuJEb2SR+CWOKD/0eOZgHzPx6ZJsSHWLoNIL9W5 PkMrl7/XvURmRJ+oIeLvVCsg2GKmMapPlO0UpyAWgibUjVZCc+brtnFyeR6VcYQCWY3q e/6Q== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20221208; t=1682957864; x=1685549864; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=0Nm5wzlZGrrH866jNaymkdIkGnspamP+WzxHsR77NHQ=; b=U8idIOvjRq16RxVLtMl/111QpIYMZyzryfd4ekunQLjp9mrZgkoFXfbcIMGCRW6T7F kVV1/5JAmXpJNaYWNAbr4OUs9s1VWa4HdqSvMpYVjRh+ARQv54NQ5ZRBaejhQkA5IJvu eBOgnFzcqCFnOEn80KyTDRyZyaWsRaqKJ6TxwKwVqqCuHe9KrDek/z1TaXqU8RTF2UGq EiXs//elCyXDxCcwIr7cy0ILrkpJbSEy+PD8qRbq8PZHRuzGd+vRc3g5NK3j16JaHA1p NEHIIYnBhyZAvMxjZBxPN8x9ZGC7lpPmRy1G7ywbIo/Inm2kksjBtfaFYKmsjcngKuWm 9e5Q== X-Gm-Message-State: AC+VfDxluFiJJ90BLVMTbJrWdtmCHHARdWxhPGalfO5yUPXNzb7BEUt+ PK9PjTE0uBQaNKBfsprdNohHp+/3XI4xjBJ8phV56EKd X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACHHUZ7+Ba7KCPXHGuC7eZSINoo8L66sGRipvpSs4Mzv9V5fCal2v7yga3WrxKeTVcCz3pmpNn7loFFifBZZP+z7J7c= X-Received: by 2002:a0d:e811:0:b0:55a:7c7:a0bb with SMTP id r17-20020a0de811000000b0055a07c7a0bbmr6304529ywe.2.1682957863644; Mon, 01 May 2023 09:17:43 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-emulation List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <062d1549-020d-e0c9-21ad-bf12720a4287@mittelstaedt.us> In-Reply-To: <062d1549-020d-e0c9-21ad-bf12720a4287@mittelstaedt.us> From: Kevin Oberman Date: Mon, 1 May 2023 09:17:27 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: How to break to console on Mint Linux VM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="000000000000a2738205faa429ca" X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4Q97fJ5Gj8z3xdM X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2607:f8b0::/32, country:US] X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N --000000000000a2738205faa429ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 7:14=E2=80=AFAM Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Mount the Mint Mate VM as a secondary disk on some convenient VM and edit > the password file to blank the password then dismount it and attempt to > restart it again. You might also edit ssh config to turn on ssh so you c= an > ssh into it once it's started. Or edit the X configs to get rid of X and > boot to a command line login (I assume it's booting to X login) > > virtual machine - Mounting another VM's .vdi in VirtualBox - Unix & Linux > Stack Exchange > > > Ted > On 4/29/2023 6:32 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > This morning I updated my Mint Mate VM and rebooted as directed. The > system came up to the login screen and I entered the password. The screen > expanded to its normal size, but the login screen just appeared again. An= y > entry of the password led me nowhere. I tried to boot headless, but could > find no way to get to a login prompt. > > The system just returned: > ptavv> VBoxManage startvm Mint --type headless > Waiting for VM "Mint" to power on... > VM "Mint" has been successfully started. > ptavv> > > I am not a Linux expert and I'm mostly clueless about admin since systemd= , > and I don't make much use of this VM, but it is handy now and then. > > Can anyone provide a clue on how to try to rescue the system? Clearly, > something is causing my session to exit on startup, but I have no idea wh= at > and, without command line access, I'm unlikely to find it > > Thanks. Since that was my only Linux VM, yesterday I threw up a new one and did just that.Looks like something in the updated Mint does not like something in the over 11K line long .tcshrc.* setup I use. Switch to bash and it works. I really should switch to bash, I guess, but I have so much committed to learning tcsh and tweaking things to be just like I want them that it will be sad to say 'Goodbye'... and a new learning curve to make bash sing and dance like my tcsh setup. does. OTOH, I can recover the brain cells dedicated to dealing with tcsh scripting. BTW, the magic to get a terminal login prompt is -F[1-6]. F8 is the X session. Learned this about 11 pm while reading VB documentation last night. Thanks so much for the suggestion! --=20 Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 --000000000000a2738205faa429ca Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 7:14=E2= =80=AFAM Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@= mittelstaedt.us> wrote:
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Mount the Mint Mate VM as a secondary disk on some convenient VM and edit the password file to blank the password then dismount it and attempt to restart it again.=C2=A0 You might also edit ssh config to turn on ssh so you can ssh into it once it's started.=C2=A0 Or= edit the X configs to get rid of X and boot to a command line login (I assume it's booting to X login)

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Ted

On 4/29/2023 6:32 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
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This m= orning I updated my Mint Mate VM and rebooted as directed. The system came up to the login screen and I entered the password. The screen expanded to its normal size, but the login screen just appeared again. Any entry of the password led me nowhere. I tried to boot headless, but could find no way to get to a login prompt.

The sy= stem just returned:
ptavv&= gt; VBoxManage startvm Mint --type headless
Waiting for VM "Mint" to power on...
VM "Mint" has been successfully started.
ptavv&= gt;

I am n= ot a Linux expert and I'm mostly clueless about admin since systemd, and I don't make much use of this VM, but it is handy now and then.

Can an= yone provide a clue on how to try to rescue the system? Clearly, something is causing my session to exit on startup, but I have no idea what and, without command line access, I'm unlikely to find it

Thanks. Since that was my only Linux VM, yesterday = I threw up a new one and did just that.Looks like somethi= ng in the updated Mint does not like something in the over 11K line long .t= cshrc.* setup I use. Switch to bash and it works. I really should switch to= bash, I guess, but I have so much committed to learning tcsh and tweaking = things to be just like I want them that it will be sad to say 'Goodbye&= #39;... and a new learning curve to make bash sing and dance like my tcsh s= etup. does. OTOH, I can recover the brain cells dedicated to dealing with t= csh scripting.

BTW, the magic to get a terminal login prompt is <Right-CTRL>-F[= 1-6]. F8 is the X session. Learned this about 11 pm while reading VB docume= ntation last night.

Thanks so much for the suggestion!
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