It then tells me to log in for maintenance or press control-d.
Control-d tells me I’m in emergency mode and to check journalctl -xb
This is the first thing I could find that seems like a problem:
It actually loaded the X login screen,
but after logging into Openbox no programs would load via hotkey,
and the Openbox menus didn’t appear.
Things I did differently yesterday:
tried dual monitors for the first time (both hdmi) – everything seemed to work fine
did a lot of setup / messing around to get rosegarden working
installed official qjackctl and timidity packages
installed unofficial qsynth package https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:rncbc/qsynth
I chose that version of qsynth because it uses Qt5,
and it is seemingly from the main developer.
It seemed to work fine.
After a lot of hassle I got rosegarden working! >_<
When I logged out of Openbox I got a single blinking keyboard caret in the top left.
This was unusual, but logging out of Openbox randomly won’t properly logout back to the login screen.
There isn’t the blinking caret usually – just a blank screen.
My options are usually to ctrl+alt+f1 then ctrl+alt+f7, or ctrl+alt+backspace*2
I tried both, but it seemed to freeze the system, without showing anything new, so I ended up flipping the power switch.
Then I realized it was just past midnight… monday… would ctrl+alt+backspace trigger the weekly cron job?
Did I cut power in the middle of a disk cleanup?
I get the same blinking caret now, directly after grub, then it goes to a grey screen with three questions marks,
then the first screenshot, then the message about logging in for maintenance.
