[Solved]Stucking before starting XFCE

[Skiploser]

Good afternoon,

yesterday my system ran smoothly but now due to ever reason while booting it stucks and does not get into XFCE.

The only thing what I am seeing is a blinking cursor. Launched console is is throwing

FAIL startpar: service(s) returned failure: plymouth ... failed!

Any advice what needs to be done in order to fix it ?


thanks in advance

[JayM]

If you have an nvidia GPU see
viewtopic.php?f=97&t=51081

[Skiploser]

yes I have...ok I will

[Skiploser]

Ok this worked fine...

thanks for your quick help

have a good one

[Skiploser]

It hasn't fixed it entirely.

Now I get in to XFCE, however, after I type in the credentials XFCE starts again.

any further advice ?

[JayM]

See if you can log in as root. If so, please run MX Tools/Quick System Info, then right-click paste into a reply. (Quick System Info automatically copies the information to the clipboard and formats it properly for the forum so all you have to do is paste it.) Thanks.

[Skiploser]

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System:    Host: black Kernel: 4.19.0-5-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 6.3.0 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: MX-18.3_x64 Continuum May 26  2019 
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B350-PLUS v: Rev X.0x serial: <filter> 
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: 4801 date: 04/25/2019 
CPU:       Topology: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen rev: 1 
           L2 cache: 4096 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 95805 
           Speed: 1779 MHz min/max: 1550/3000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1356 2: 1375 3: 1369 
           4: 1368 5: 1306 6: 1978 7: 1319 8: 1330 9: 1375 10: 1374 11: 1329 12: 2721 13: 1352 
           14: 1332 15: 1375 16: 1375 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1080] driver: nvidia v: 390.116 bus ID: 07:00.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: nvidia 
           resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz, 1920x1080~60Hz, 2560x1440~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.116 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
           bus ID: 07:00.1 
           Device-2: AMD vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 09:00.3 
           Device-3: Kingston type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 1-1:2 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-5-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK 
           driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 03:00.0 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 51.18 GiB (22.0%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 225.99 GiB used: 51.18 GiB (22.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 37.1 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 50 C 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 gpu: nvidia fan: 19% 
Repos:     Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list 
           1: deb http://iso.mxrepo.com/antix/stretch stretch main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/mxlinux/packages/mx/repo/ stretch main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plexmediaserver.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 296 Uptime: 9m Memory: 15.66 GiB used: 744.8 MiB (4.6%) Init: SysVinit 
           runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 6.3.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.12 inxi: 3.0.33 

[JayM]

The only thing I can think of to try is when logged in as root, go to /home/YourUserName (whatever your normal logon name is), open a terminal and run

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chown -R YourUserName:YourUserName *

again, replacing "YourUserName" with whatever you actual login name is.

Usually, when you get returned to the login prompt it's either a permissions issue which that command should fix, or it's a free space issue in the /home directory.

[Skiploser]

change the ownership without success!

strange..as root it works. My user does not!

But the failure FAIL startpar: service(s) returned failure: plymouth ... failed! is still there. May be this is related to this issue?

any further idea?

[JayM]

Just as a troubleshooting step, as root and in the menu go to MX Tools/MX Tools, open User Manager, and under Add User Account create a new user then log out and try logging in as that user just to see what happens.