Having skipped 13.1 because it didn’t have the GUI prompt for a passphrase for my encrypted LVM system I’m trying out 13.2 in a VM.
At first I had the GUI prompt (despite a total lack of comment as to what was being prompted for) but that’s now disappeared and I’m back to the scrolling text console screen.
What’s happening here? The GUI prompt appeared in 12.3 (IIRC) and was a vast improvement but, since then, it’s been a disaster. I hassled about it in 13.1 but was basically given the brush off on the basis that *real *Linux users didn’t need a GUI at boot.
I know it’s not essential but it just looks a mess and really looks bad when I’m trying to convince SWMBO to run a fully encrypted Linux system on the family laptop.
Where is it configured, can I do anything to fix it?
If things were first working and later do not work anymore you could see if diffing the log files gives some clues.
Try opening /var/log/messages and you will see that every reboot start with a line:
Find the log for the case where things still went well and a log where things did go wrong, strip off the timestamp and diff them using Kompare, Meld, Tkdiff, gvimdiff or one of the other tools you can find on Free file comparison tools
> What’s happening here? The GUI prompt appeared in 12.3 (IIRC) and was a
> vast improvement but, since then, it’s been a disaster. I hassled about
> it in 13.1 but was basically given the brush off on the basis that -real
> -Linux users didn’t need a GUI at boot.
I understand that the graphical password prompt works in 13.1, it is
handled by plymouth. However, I consider the text messages flowing
during boot beautiful, so I remove plymouth from all my systems, so I
get a text prompt, intentionally.
But many more people prefer the graphical boot, and as far as I know, it
works, or more people would be complaining about the issue.
You probably get the text messages because there is some problem during
the boot. Did you change something? Graphical drivers, perhaps?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
