Sudden Jump to Text Only Screen SOLVED

[barnaby]

This just happens occasionally. I am running the latest MX version. Sometimes when I try to open a terminal screen, the screen goes black and there is just a message asking me to enter the password for logging in. I try entering the password, but it is not accepted. (I have the same password for logging in and for root.) Because I don't know what to do I have to resort to a hard shutdown. This has happened again just now. I have tried to research this, but so far no luck. Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

[Eadwine Rose]

Please start with posting your Quick System Info.


Run it, hit paste in a reply.

[Huckleberry Finn]

Maybe you set a Master key for "keyring" (different than the others, say by accidental typing etc..) ..

do you remember you checked the option before to "save in the keyring" rather than "save for this session" ?

[barnaby]

I did send my quick info yesterday, but I cannot see my reply. So try again.

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 4.19.0-6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-6-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.5 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 
           Distro: MX-19.2_x64 patito feo October 21  2019 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Entroware product: Nyx v: ED03R6 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: ASRock model: H310M-ITX/ac serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: P3.10 date: 09/27/2018 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i3-8100 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Kaby Lake family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) 
           stepping: B (11) microcode: D6 L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 28800 
           Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/3600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model vendor: ASRock driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
           chip ID: 8086:3e91 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1920x1200~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Coffeelake 3x8 GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6 compat-v: 3.0 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 
           chip ID: 8086:a348 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-6-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: ASRock driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: efa0 bus ID: 00:1f.6 
           chip ID: 8086:15bc 
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: efa0 bus ID: 02:00.0 
           chip ID: 8086:24fb 
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 65.77 GiB (28.2%) 
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 250GB size: 232.89 GiB block size: physical: 512 B 
           logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: 1B2QEXM7 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 230.60 GiB size: 225.99 GiB (98.00%) used: 51.56 GiB (22.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache pressure: 100 (default) 
           dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/atom.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packagecloud.io/AtomEditor/atom/any/ any main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster main non-free
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vivaldi.list 
           1: deb http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main
Info:      Processes: 203 Uptime: 1h 04m Memory: 7.46 GiB used: 1.12 GiB (15.0%) Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 
           Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: quick-system-in running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

Hope it works this time.

[dolphin_oracle]

This just happens occasionally. I am running the latest MX version. Sometimes when I try to open a terminal screen, the screen goes black and there is just a message asking me to enter the password for logging in. I try entering the password, but it is not accepted. (I have the same password for logging in and for root.) Because I don't know what to do I have to resort to a hard shutdown. This has happened again just now. I have tried to research this, but so far no luck. Can anyone point me in the right direction please?

how are you opening a terminal screen?

[Huckleberry Finn]

You can simply test if you like:

"MX User Manager" from Menu and create a new user (just for now ...) and login with that for some time, observe ...

[Stevo]

Does this happen more often after resuming from a suspend?

Does switching to the "intel" driver in MX Tweak make any difference?

[barnaby]

Answers to some questions. I have never used suspend.

I open the terminal screen using a keyboard shortcut, function key F4.

I have never had anything to do with a "keyring", whatever that is. Something to do with PGP?

What I am really asking is how to close down safely if this happens again. Especially as it does not accept my password.

[dolphin_oracle]

Is it a full login prompt? Username and password?

[Huckleberry Finn]

... Or, can you take a photo (obviously you won't be able to take a screenshot on pc, so, via phone etc.) and attach ?

P.S. What if you open the Terminal other ways? Does the same ever happen? From Menu .. or in Thunar "Open Terminal Here" .. Just to compare.

... And.. try to close that with Alt+F4 . If not again: Ctrl+Alt+esc (and an X will appear like a mouse pointer; click on that Terminal/password screen )

(In case they don't work: Ctrl+Alt+Backspace : New session .. Till then.. At least better than hard shutdown each time)