Date: Mon, 1 May 2023 09:17:27 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@mittelstaedt.us> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to break to console on Mint Linux VM Message-ID: <CAN6yY1sabfMS15VgPDaY2ptRmqrSP44FXmV02QKSS9h4R4F0Pw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <062d1549-020d-e0c9-21ad-bf12720a4287@mittelstaedt.us> References: <CAN6yY1uVXynT8c=sGGcWU%2Bc5s7bNp4j6NA5qhLf2QWUaWohCGw@mail.gmail.com> <062d1549-020d-e0c9-21ad-bf12720a4287@mittelstaedt.us>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 7:14 AM Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@mittelstaedt.us> 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 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 > <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/105430/mounting-another-vms-vdi-in-virtualbox>; > > 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 > > 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 <Right-CTRL>-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! -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 [-- Attachment #2 --] <div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 7:14 AM Ted Mittelstaedt <<a href="mailto:tedm@mittelstaedt.us">tedm@mittelstaedt.us</a>> wrote:</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <div> <p>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)<br> </p> <p><a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/105430/mounting-another-vms-vdi-in-virtualbox" target="_blank">virtual machine - Mounting another VM's .vdi in VirtualBox - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange</a></p> <p>Ted<br> </p> <div>On 4/29/2023 6:32 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite"> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.</div> <div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br> </div> <div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">The system just returned:</div> <div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">ptavv> VBoxManage startvm Mint --type headless<br> Waiting for VM "Mint" to power on...<br> VM "Mint" has been successfully started.<br> </div> <div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">ptavv> </div> <div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br> </div> <div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.</div> <div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br> </div> <div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">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<br> </div><span></span><br clear="all"></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks. Since that was my only Linux VM, yesterday I threw up a new one and did just that</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">.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.<br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">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 documentation last night.</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks so much for the suggestion!<br></span></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:rkoberman@gmail.com" target="_blank">rkoberman@gmail.com</a><br></div><div>PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>help
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