First - could you not get to recovery rather than ssh?
Anyway - I have
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/90-numlock.conf
[Seat:*]
greeter-setup-script=/usr/bin/numlockx on
Obviously have numlockx installed. I've found that numlock at the
keyboard settings makes no difference at all to login screen.
On 01/12/16 03:50, Len Philpot wrote:
...and after nearly 20 years in IT (most of that on *nix) I should
have known better, but... :-)
Lesson: Be careful what you put in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. It can
prevent login.
Backstory: I applied updates as prompted tonight and after rebooting,
it (16.04.1 LTS) came up to the teal boot splash with the rotating
circle and did... nothing. No login prompt and no combination of
Ctrl+Alt+Fx would give me a console prompt.
But I was able to SSH in from my laptop! There were lots of messages
in /var/log/syslog about lightdm failing to start (tell me something I
don't know!) and 'systemctl status lightdm.service' confirmed it was
down. There were also a couple of messages about not being able to
load /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf due to an entry not being in a group
(or something like that - Not on the box now to check).
Anyway, when I took a look at lightdm.conf, there was a "numlockx"
line (the only one) I had forgotten about putting there a few days
ago... from unverified online advice. :-/ I was trying to get number
lock to turn on automatically, but obviously that's not the way to do
it! :-) I deleted (the otherwise empty) lightdm.conf and voila...!
It works great again.
Once again, I should have asked the question: What did you change
last? (only this time of myself).
Speaking of number lock: Is there a way to reliably and safely enable
it at login?
Thanks.
--
Len Philpot
Sent from EPIM Pro
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