Ken Heard wrote: > > Just finished installing Stretch, using a RAID1, LVM and encryotion > for home (passkey) and . It is ant the moment a basic installation > with X-server-Xorg, but no DE yet.
if you use the control-alt F1 - F? sequence do you get a login prompt? (check F7 and F8 too) > As part of the boot it accepts my > /home password, but I do not get the command line. I end up with a > blue-grey screen. No input from mouse or keyboard is accepted. To > close the computer I have to use the power switch. oh, this doesn't sound good, but since you don't describe your keyboard or mouse type i'm not sure if you need to change something in the bios or what for them to show up. check the bios if you have settings that might help. use a different keyboard and/or mouse to check that something shows up. your X setup may need adjusting. check /var/log/Xorg.0.log and X*.log.old if you have no log files install rsyslog. > I can open it in recovery mode, and after I enter the root password I > can get the command line as root. But I don't know what to do next to > effect a rescue. From the root command line I can however close the > computer properly with "shutdown -h now". > > I did notice when the computer was booting normally -- not in rescue > mode -- the following lines loop many times until the computer gives up: > > Running /scripts/local-block > Failed to connect to lvmetad > Failed to find logical volume SOL1/swap_crypt > > According to several posts on line, this behaviour is a nuisance but > not fatal. As some people suggested on line I tried to get rid of > this nuisance by changing in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf use_lvmetad=1 to =0, > but to no effect. > > If I have to I can live with the nuisance, but I cannot live without > the command line. > > Help please, anyone. > > Regards, Ken those are what i can think of. i'm not familiar with LVM at all. i do know that at times some partitions are set up but may not be found due to various issues. i make life simpler by using volume labels and adjusting /etc/fstab to use those instead of UUIDs. the problem i had was that the reformat of the swap partition got rid of my label. so now if i do anything that touches the swap partition i reset the label. songbird
