[OpenIndiana-discuss] Openindiana boot kvm lmde4

[Tony Brian Albers]

Good morning,

I'm not sure you can get a decent MATE Desktop running when in 
single-user mode. Quite a lot of stuff in modern(!) desktops rely on 
different sort of internal network-based services, and many of those are 
not started in single-user mode.

What you could do is something like(in sigle user mode):

svcadm disable lightdm  (because sometimes lightdm can actually crash so 
hard that the host reboots)

And then try booting into multi-user. If this works, you should have a 
chance to investigate and maybe figure out what's going on.

You might also want to try changing the virtual display protocol in 
libvirt (virtual machine properties -> channel spice) to VNC.


/tony

Joel Lapointe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I installed OpenIndiana 20.05.04 in Quemu/KVM Gui (Virtual Machine 
> Manager libvirt).
> 
> It has a boot loop if I use default boot (1. Multiuser...). So I tried 
> 2. Single User. It gave me this :
> 
>      " Enter user name for system maintenance (control-d to bypass):"
> 
> So I entered with root ans my root password. It gave me a terminal "#".
> 
> So I tried "startx" to see if it gives me the mate desktop. It doesn't, 
> it gave a minimal "x" gui with 2 terminal windows.
> 
> Here is my question : How is it possible to start mate desktop with the 
> system maintenance terminal?
> 
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Joel Lapointe
> 
> 
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