Hi Samuel, Well, lightdm and Mate started normally when I rebooted the machine about a day later. ODD! Next time something like that hapens I will try systemctl restart lightdm of course as root.
Thanks for the info. John On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 06:17:50PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org, le jeu. 16 juil. 2020 18:23:05 -0500, a ecrit: > > This afternoon there was a momentary power failure. My UPS failed also. > > After rebooting I got the message Screen not in text mode. Only tty7 is > > affected. > > Which means it's only brltty which is running, and orca is not managing > to start, which is surprising for a mere power failure. > > You can try to make sure that > /etc/xdg/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/80_orca-dm-wrapper.conf still contains > > [SeatDefaults] > greeter-wrapper=/usr/bin/orca-dm-wrapper > > as documented in > > https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#lightdm_accessibility > > Samuel > -- John J. Boyer Email: john.bo...@abilitiessoft.org website: http://www.abilitiessoft.org Status: Company dissolved but website and email addresses live. Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA Mission: developing assistive technology software and providing STEM services that are available at no cost
