Brian Masinick
Momentarily, I can see a console screen full of startup information (“Welcome to AntiX”, etc.) and a login prompt, before the login splash screen reappears.
The image displayed is a deserted station platform and a train with unnatural light beams.What next?
I’m not sure that any of us have actually solved the fundamental problem, but my conjecture on this, based on past experiences, though limited by not actually witnessing what is taking place, is that two things are likely to either be potential causes of the problem, or at least able to reduce potential cause, which will help find the actual culprit:
1. One of the first things I check – first at the user account level, then throughout the filesystems (being MUCH more careful about changing ANYTHING at the file system level unless I’m willing to scrap and replace the system entirely). Sometimes, something as simple as: sudo chown -R myuser:mygroup $HOME – that is making sure that ALL files within my user account are actually owned by me and managed by my groupID – solves my own most common problems; try it to see if it helps in any way for you.
2. The hardware you are using – for whatever reason – is not properly configured or supported by the installation or something got accidentally or indvertently altered during installation, configuration, or day to day use. If other distributions work fine and you know something about where certain capabilities are stored, you can compare configuration and setup scripts and data files to see if anything really obvious is changed. You can also save a particular file – copy it or back it up somewhere, then copy another distribution’s file in it’s place. If it fixes the issue, keep it; otherwise restore the original; make one change at a time. That’s another way to hack your way to a solution. The more practice you have doing this, the better you’ll be able to give an educated guess about what is wrong.
If you back up the entire system plus a separate backup of specific changes you make, you can get pretty crazy with what you change, yet recover from it if it doesn’t work. Of course you can also trash the entire setup and start over; unless you have a lot of difficult to replace information, it may be better to do this, copying back in the files and features you need. Trying out a completely replaced image and cleaned out data may help isolate issues too. I hope this helps with your diagnosis.
- This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Brian Masinick.
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