No GUI login after reboot

[Member Nasko]

Following a fresh install, first GUI login and establishing a network connection I rebooted my laptop. After the usual boot sequence there was only a black screen for about two minutes followed by terminal login prompt. In order to reach to GUI login screen I have to enter $ sudo slimski
Your help will be appreciated.

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[Member RJP]

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If this is a new installation, maybe then is better to do re-installation without LVM.

https://wiki.debian.org/LVM

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[Member Nasko]

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Thank you, but LVM is not in use. I checked however the logs (see below):

envlang received as: en_US.UTF-8
slimski: waiting for X server to begin accepting connections

Giving up.
slimski: unable to connect to X server
slimski: waiting for X server to shut down

If I start slimski from terminal I get straight to the GUI login.
$ sudo slimski

[Member RJP]

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Try to install xserver-xorg-legacy via tty and then edit /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file as

allowed_users = anybody

so that you can launch X as regular user.

startx

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Edit: Of course you can try to start X via tty without intalling anything.

startx /usr/local/bin/desktop-session rox-icewm

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[Member PPC]

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This may be unrelated, but my Dell mini tower desktop refuses to run antiX correctly (mostly the screen does not refresh to show anything more than the menu), if I enable auto-login. If I disable auto-login, antix runs fine, I tried out several antiX versions, even 17.X, that does not use Slimsky, and I always had that same bug.
Did you, by any change, enable auto-login during your install process? Note that I get the same bug even if the user field is automatically filled when starting the log-in GUI. To use my system normally I always have to type my user name and password, at slimsky (in this computer, and I installed several antiX versions on multiple computers and never had any problem).

P.

[Member Nasko]

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Thank you for your suggestions. I forgot to mention few things:
– I am using zzz-icewm;
– autologin is disabled;
– If I disable WiFi I get straight to the GUI login screen after a reboot – no issue at all;
– If WiFi is enabled the reboot results in a CLI login prompt after at least 2 minutes and I can reach GUI login via $ sudo slimski
log errors (see my previous post)

[Member PPC]

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Nasko wrote:

– If I disable WiFi I get straight to the GUI login screen after a reboot – no issue at all;

So this is most probably a wi-fi driver problem. since usually those are included in the kernel itself, try installing a more modern kernel (like 6.2) and boot into it.

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[Member Nasko]

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Thanks, but I installed MX-Fluxbox with the same 5.x kernel and there is no problem at all.

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