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Give root password for maintenance (or press Control-D...
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:34 pm
by twister
I was playing with a tool on Linux. Eventually I have changed something.
From then on, every time I boot up my computer, it pauses with the following message:
Give root password for maintenance
(or press Control-D to continue)
I need to press Ctrl+D and then Linux boot continues.
How can I turn it off and let OS to boot up to the login screen without pauses?
Re: Give root password for maintenance (or press Control-D...
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:36 pm
by j2mcgreg
We are going to need your computer’s complete profile before we can proceed, so you need to post the output from the QSI utility. The Quick System Info (QSI) utility is located in MX Tools and its output is automatically formatted for use here in the forum. Run the QSI utility, click “Copy for Forum” at the bottom and then just paste it here in your thread.
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Re: Give root password for maintenance (or press Control-D...
Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:06 pm
by Charlie Brown
Live session: GParted => right click on MX root partition : "Check" .. apply
(... on other partitions, too while you're at it, and if you like only)
Re: Give root password for maintenance (or press Control-D...
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:27 am
by twister
I did that with all partitions but it didn't help.
Linux still stops midway to login screen
https://imgur.com/vrTZWxl
Charlie Brown wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:06 pm
Live session: GParted => right click on MX root partition : "Check" .. apply
(... on other partitions, too while you're at it, and if you like only)
Re: Give root password for maintenance (or press Control-D...
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:42 am
by Charlie Brown
It also complains about
iwlwifi firmware, but we still don't have the QSI.
(... ah, that "yoyo.bin" again :) .. do you have any conf files in /etc/modprobe.d/ regarding iwlwifi? If yes, contents please)
If no such files:
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echo 'options iwlwifi enable_ini=0' | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf
Reboot.
Re: Give root password for maintenance (or press Control-D... [Solved]
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:08 am
by twister
One of the entries in my /etc/fstab was incorrect.
Hitting control-d was followed by a "loading kernel modules" message and then by fstab error.
I thought that fstab had nothing to do with that prompt as it came up later in the flow.
Thanks for your posts.