nmtui I found works better. It's possible the area of the drive with /home in it is going bad. I'm running smartctl -t long over here since I'm pretty sure that's what's happening here.
Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Fri, 17 Mar 2023, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > Hello, > > This email is being sent to Debian-Accessibility and Debian-Boot separately. > > I installed from this file:debian-live-11.6.0-amd64-mate+nonfree.iso under > Windows11 using. Win32 Disk Imager following the Debian Instructions, I had > previously been using Unetbootin. > > I was asked to install this because I had failures using the "latest" > Alpha2 iso. > > I still cannot log into the system using my user name and password. > The system starts the GUI but fails and goes back to the log in screen, but > only for user, root can run the GUI. > > The installer doesn't ask me where to put GRUB, I believe it should as > I have multiple Linux distros and several hard drives. > > One big thing to the Accessibility Community is that the base packages > - that is just installing the base packages and standard utilities > without Debian Desktop Environment and any other Desktop Environment > like MATE, is that either nmcli or nmtui should be installed. It's > difficult for many including myself to remember how to get a WiFi > connection up and running without such a program. > > Debian Accessibility mentioned that it was going to put in a request > that there be a choice to boot into the CLI text mode, many blind > users love the CLI because it's unambiguous. > > The instructions I was given was to do this in /var/log/ > > tar -cf log.tar.bz2 ./hardware-summary lsb-release partman status syslog > > However none of the files except syslog are there, so I just include a > pastebin link for syslog. > > syslog is here: https://pastebin.com/GzYARtRG > > What I have to do is log in as root giving the root password. Then I > can start X, I can also from the root prompt, enter "su myusername" > and start X. I also from root prompt entered "passwd myusername" and > entered my usename password. I still cannot log in. > > Best regards, > David Ring >