TW the link-destroyer ..except for krnl 6.7.2
My 3 or 4 KDE-employing systems all use xeyes as the mouse-arrow locating utility since an earlier one called mouse-trails died out in the 4.x epoch. Gotta have something like this with 1920+ resolution. https://imgur.com/1ADm9h8.png {OT: wallpaper is my snow-removal log, clearly shows warming} To get the eyes there I drop links into a remote 'bashers-linked' folder that contains links to bash scripts such as my-xeyes.bsh elsewhere, the .profile file is also a link to a common remote .profile file with lines such as these in it: cd 0/bashers-linked bash my-xeyes-launch.bsh The reason I link is to protect the folder of real scripts :-) I use this system in TW, Slowroll, Artix and maybe annother KDE setup (about half use KDE, the other half XFCE). There have been issues needing fixing from tiome to time, the latest one is that booting TW erases the links. I'd like to trap the culprit but don't really know how, but it is a PITA. While on TW, the reason I cited the exception for kernel 6.7.2 is that while that appears in the grub2 boot menu, selecting it results in a boot to command-line only.
Ben T. Fender composed on 2024-02-06 07:19 (UTC-0500):
kernel 6.7.2 is that while that appears in the grub2 boot menu, selecting it results in a boot to command-line only.
Is this purposely configured? If not, do you know why? If not, look at /dev/dri/. If card1 exists but not card0, you have the same unsolved problem I have on several installations. Logged in as root, 'systemctl restart xdm && exit' should get your GUI going. 'init 5' might also doit. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
Tue, 6 Feb 2024 07:40:21 -0500
Felix Miata
Ben T. Fender composed on 2024-02-06 07:19 (UTC-0500):
kernel 6.7.2 is that while that appears in the grub2 boot menu, selecting it results in a boot to command-line only.
Is this purposely configured? If not, do you know why? If not, look at /dev/dri/. If card1 exists but not card0, you have the same unsolved problem I have on several installations. Logged in as root, 'systemctl restart xdm && exit' should get your GUI going. 'init 5' might also doit.
I'm not a 'command-line person' :-) ...was just leaving but I quickly looked and /dev/dri contains folder 'by-path' card0 renderD128 folder 'by-path' contains pci-0000:08:00.0-card pci-0000:08:00.0-render later
-- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science.
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!
Felix Miata
Ben T. Fender composed on 2024-02-06 07:55 (UTC-0500):
Tue, 6 Feb 2024 07:40:21 -0500 Felix Miata composed:
Ben T. Fender composed on 2024-02-06 07:19 (UTC-0500):
kernel 6.7.2 is that while that appears in the grub2 boot menu, selecting it results in a boot to command-line only.
Is this purposely configured? If not, do you know why? If not, look at /dev/dri/. If card1 exists but not card0, you have the same unsolved problem I have on several installations. Logged in as root, 'systemctl restart xdm && exit' should get your GUI going. 'init 5' might also doit.
I'm not a 'command-line person' :-) ...was just leaving but I quickly looked and /dev/dri contains
folder 'by-path' card0
That's expected, but is that from a 6.7.2 boot? If not, do you get card1 instead if you boot 6.7.2? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
Tue, 6 Feb 2024 08:20:41 -0500
Felix Miata
That's expected, but is that from a 6.7.2 boot? If not, do you get card1 instead if you boot 6.7.2?
a 6.7.2 boot get me to a login promp and at that point there is no /dev/dri folder commanding 'systemctl restart xdm && exit' just gets me right back to the same prompt
Ben T. Fender composed on 2024-02-06 13:26 (UTC-0500):
Tue, 6 Feb 2024 08:20:41 -0500 Felix Miata composed:
That's expected, but is that from a 6.7.2 boot? If not, do you get card1 instead if you boot 6.7.2?
a 6.7.2 boot get me to a login promp and at that point there is no /dev/dri folder
commanding 'systemctl restart xdm && exit' just gets me right back to the same prompt
Would you happen to be a user of NVidia's proprietary drivers? If yes, suspect yours haven't caught up with the latest kernel yet. Just keep booting the prior kernel until you can determine catchup can be applied. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
Tue, 6 Feb 2024 20:12:23 -0500
Felix Miata
Ben T. Fender composed on 2024-02-06 13:26 (UTC-0500):
Tue, 6 Feb 2024 08:20:41 -0500 Felix Miata composed:
That's expected, but is that from a 6.7.2 boot? If not, do you get card1 instead if you boot 6.7.2?
a 6.7.2 boot get me to a login promp and at that point there is no /dev/dri folder
commanding 'systemctl restart xdm && exit' just gets me right back to the same prompt
Would you happen to be a user of NVidia's proprietary drivers? If yes, suspect yours haven't caught up with the latest kernel yet. Just keep booting the prior kernel until you can determine catchup can be applied.
Yes, I must have re-installed them when google-earth was underperforming without them. They're not undatable yet.
Tue, 6 Feb 2024 07:19:58 -0500
"Ben T. Fender"
My 3 or 4 KDE-employing systems all use xeyes as the mouse-arrow locating utility since an earlier one called mouse-trails died out in the 4.x epoch. Gotta have something like this with 1920+ resolution.
https://imgur.com/1ADm9h8.png {OT: wallpaper is my snow-removal log, clearly shows warming}
To get the eyes there I drop links into a remote 'bashers-linked' folder that contains links to bash scripts such as my-xeyes.bsh elsewhere, the .profile file is also a link to a common remote .profile file with lines such as these in it:
cd 0/bashers-linked bash my-xeyes-launch.bsh
The reason I link is to protect the folder of real scripts :-)
I use this system in TW, Slowroll, Artix and maybe annother KDE setup (about half use KDE, the other half XFCE). There have been issues needing fixing from tiome to time, the latest one is that booting TW erases the links. I'd like to trap the culprit but don't really know how, but it is a PITA.
More tries reveal that in the case of both Slowroll anf TW scripts in the 'bashers-linked' folder called to execute do so before the folder gets emptied of all it's content regardless of whether its links or scripts.
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