dear Ed, It wasn't complicated at all in till the unintended upgrade, and I wish to try and resolve this, even though I a person with copy&paste skills in command line. OpenBSD 6.8 was booting fine with gnome, but now stuck in xterm.
Now in xsession cd/use/pets/gnome, typed make, it is making, will report what happens. Thank you. On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 at 23:23, Ed Gray <e.mask....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Sivan, > > Sorry I've not had chance to look at everything you sent. > > Firstly the message about SSH keys sounds normal as this is part of a normal X session startup. I suspect you have a key that has changed or needs a passphrase entered and it's just picking it up when you try to start X. > > The command history looks strange, you're running shutdown and reboot and then other commands, unless these are from another session? > > Openbsd needs the -h option to both shutdown and power off the machine or -r for reboot. > > Where is your startx program and is it a custom program? > > If you have done unintended upgrades and your /usr is also full it's going to cause all sorts of problems. I would recommend reinstalling a release from scratch if you can. > > Alternatively when the boot program runs you can choose bad.rd to get the installer ramdisk and manually repair from there but it's a rather complex process. > > On my system I had to boot bad.rd, type s for shell, run the MAKEDEV script in /dev to create device nodes and then run disklabel manually to rearrange volumes to make space. > > You would also need to grow or shrink the volumes. > > Regarding further troubleshooting of X sessions I would recommend moving .xsession to .xsession.bak and starting with a fresh configuration. > > I would need to understand more about how you are starting gnome like more details of any changes you made to the standard installation. I see gnome-sessiin-bi.core.core under / and .xauthority under /root, as in the attached image > Regards > Ed Gray > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2021, 12:03 am Sivan !, <s9952403...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Dear Stuart Henderson. >> >> I ran sysmerge. >> >> I posted, earlier in this thread, 11 images in response to Ed Gray's >> comment that I had not shared sufficient details. In addition there >> are four more images attached here that I think are important. >> >> One of these four images show the output of sysmerge and startx commands. >> Another is a screenshot of a strange prompt that appears before boot, >> it asks for the ssh password - not an encryption password, which >> might be understandable, if I had an encrypted disk, I haven't >> encrypted -- so why does it ask for the ssh password, before asking >> for a login password in X Term? >> Two more pictures show the reboot sequence that is some sort of a loop >> when shutdown now command is issued as user or root, from x Term, then >> the main screen command line is seen flashing the status, and >> invariably reboots the system in X Term. This happened in gnome (or >> gde) before the accidental upgrade to 6.9 beta and happens in x Term >> in 6.9 beta. >> >> Thank you. >> >> On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 14:10, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: >> > >> > On 2021-03-03, Sivan ! <s9952403...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > After sysupgrade -s, during which there were two or more automatic >> > > reboots, freebsd, upgraded to 6.9 booted after asking password for ssh key, >> > > and started with xvterm console. Startx attempted to switch to gui, but >> > > returned errors. >> > > >> > > Please advise. >> > > >> > > Thank you >> > > >> > >> > Make sure you have run sysmerge. >> > >> > If that doesn't help then we need more than just "returned errors" - *what* errors? >> >
