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Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2023, 17:05:15 CET schrieb Stephen P. Molnar:
To get closer to the cause, I suggest to remove temporaryly any loginmamanger 
out of the way  Either /usr/bin/xdm, /usr/bin/kdm, /usr/bin/gdm or /usr/bin/
xdm, whatever. Copy it somewhere, i.e. to /root

Then reboot and from thhe cli use the command "startx" to start into graphical 
mode. Mostly the X-server is the problem.

But now you can see, if the required kernel module is started and the required 
acceleration module is started. Or just get the error message.

In most cases I got into trouble, it was the module of NVídia, which was not 
built correctly or unavailable.

Creating temporarily a simple xorg.conf file copied to /etc/X11/ let you force 
to load different graphical drivers. Mostly "vesa" should work. but depending 
on your hardware it might be "nvidia" or "nouveau" or "ati" whatever.

As we do not know, which graphic chip you are using, we can only guess.

Please also note, that in the past I got into problems with the nouveau kernel 
module, whilst the proprietrary driver from NVidia worked perfectly. However, 
this is only related to NVidia cards. 

My greatest problems with NVidia cards was mostly after a kernel upgrade, as 
the kernel module could often not be built with a newer kernel.

This might also happen by AMD or ATI graphiccards, as they (as far as I know), 
also depend a kernel module and a related graphics module.

Hope this helps a little bit.

Good luck!

Hans 

> I have Bookworm installed on a 1TB SSD. When I attempted logging this
> morning I failed! Rather than opening my XFCE desktop I was sent back
> tot he login screen, over and over and ................. I got the same
> result attempting to login as root. I have to assume that grub has been
> corrupted>
> 
> As it happens I also have Bookworm installed on a second SSD on my
> platform. I'm there sending this email
> 
> I have Grub Customizer installed in both. I have also just downloaded
> and burned debian-12-2-0-ams64.
> 
> I am very nervous about messing with the OS. What might be my best
> course of action to fix the problem (short of reinstalling)?
> 
> Thanks in advance

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Boot Problem "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2023-12-05 17:10 +0100
  Re: Boot Problem Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2023-12-05 17:30 +0100
  Re: Boot Problem Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2023-12-05 18:10 +0100
  Re: Boot Problem Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> - 2023-12-05 18:50 +0100
    Re: Boot Problem Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> - 2023-12-05 19:10 +0100
      Re: Boot Problem "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 20:30 +0100
      Re: Boot Problem Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2023-12-05 23:20 +0100
    Re: Boot Problem Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2023-12-05 20:30 +0100
  Re: Boot Problem David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-12-05 21:50 +0100
    Re: Boot Problem Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2023-12-05 23:10 +0100
  Re: Boot Problem Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2023-12-05 22:30 +0100

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