On Thu 01 Dec 2022 at 13:22:11 (+0100), jd wrote: > On 2022-12-01 04:14, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 30 Nov 2022 at 19:38:05 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > Have you considered the possibility it's *not* hung, but is in fact > > > booted and working? > > > > > > Have you tried pressing Enter a few times to see if a new login prompt > > > gets printed? > > > > If pressing Enter doesn't work, it might be that the "main" VC is > > broken; perhaps try switching to another VC with Alt-→ and seeing > > if a Login: prompt appears there. > > Pressing enter doesn't do anything, but I can switch VC. I get a login > prompt on every VC but the first one. The network is up to, I get an > ip-address and I can ping the internet. Neither sddm or kde starts > though, nor does my home partition get mounted. In fact it doesn't > even show up in /etc/fstab and I definitely configured it to get > mounted on nvme0n1p1 during installation. Presumably you logged in as root? Is there a /home directory at all? If there is, does it contain anything, like a directory with two or three dotfiles in it? What are the contents of /etc/fstab? Although /var/log/installer/partman contains the general layout of the disk partitions (right near the end), it doesn't reflect the final screen that you see in the d-i's partitioner. Do you have a record of the latter? It might look something like this: ┌────────────────────────┤ [!!] Partition disks ├─────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ This is an overview of your currently configured partitions and mount │ │ points. Select a partition to modify its settings (file system, mount │ │ point, etc.), a free space to create partitions, or a device to │ │ initialize its partition table. │ │ │ │ Guided partitioning │ │ Configure software RAID │ │ Configure the Logical Volume Manager │ │ Configure encrypted volumes │ │ Configure iSCSI volumes │ │ │ │ SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 500.1 GB ATA WDC WD5000ABCD-0 │ │ > #1 primary 30.9 GB B F ext4 / │ │ > #2 primary 31.1 GB ext4 │ │ > #3 primary 434.1 GB K ext4 /home │ │ > #4 primary 4.0 GB swap │ │ SCSI5 (0,0,0) (sdc) - 2.0 GB Generic Flash Disk │ │ │ │ Undo changes to partitions │ │ Finish partitioning and write changes to disk ← selected │ │ │ │ <Go Back> │ │ │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ (In the case of this example, /home was being inherited from a previous installation in the 2nd partition, hence the K(eep) rather than F(ormat).) Close to the end of /var/log/installer/syslog, there should be a section like: $ grep -B1 -A10 -h 'Adding new group' /var/log/installer/syslog Apr 17 01:42:21 user-setup: Adding user `auser' ... Apr 17 01:42:21 user-setup: Adding new group `auser' (1000) ... Apr 16 20:42:21 groupadd[29019]: group added to /etc/group: name=auser, GID=1000 Apr 16 20:42:21 groupadd[29019]: group added to /etc/gshadow: name=auser Apr 16 20:42:21 groupadd[29019]: new group: name=auser, GID=1000 Apr 17 01:42:21 user-setup: Adding new user `auser' (1000) with group `auser' ... Apr 16 20:42:21 useradd[29025]: new user: name=auser, UID=1000, GID=1000, home=/home/auser, shell=/bin/bash, from=none Apr 17 01:42:21 user-setup: Creating home directory `/home/auser' ... Apr 17 01:42:21 user-setup: Copying files from `/etc/skel' ... Apr 16 20:42:21 usermod[29034]: change user 'auser' password Apr 16 20:42:21 chfn[29041]: changed user 'auser' information Apr 16 20:42:21 chpasswd[29050]: pam_unix(chpasswd:chauthtok): password changed for auser $ If you don't have that, it may be that the installation didn't complete correctly. Although you type the username and password near the start of the installation, the d-i doesn't actually write it on the disk until moments before you're asked to remove the installation media. Cheers, David.
