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 by: nelso...@gmail.com - Wed, 29 Mar 2023 01:06 UTC

I screwed up my rpi4 (4gig) running buster. I need advice on how to 'unscrew' it. For some reason my desktop icons and task bar(?) disappeared. I wanted to restart the gui without rebooting. I typed 'startx' which hung the system. Then I rebooted. The pi starts and the desktop comes up without any icons but with a login screen (options are shutdown or login). user pi is the default but when I type in the password the pi tries to restart the desktop which ends up with the login screen ... ad infinitum! How do I correct the startup so that I can be logged in as pi automagically. (This is what raspi-config is set to do). I can ssh into the pi so I know the pi working but I want the gui. Thanks for help and advice. I would rather fix than do a new buster install. --Steve

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 by: jeshgrca - Wed, 29 Mar 2023 02:29 UTC

startx shouldn't have screwed anything up unless you were running as
root AFAIK, but you could try messing with the .X* files in your home
directory, something like 'mkdir Xfiles && mv .X* Xfiles/' and then try
logging in. If that does nothing you can revert the previous command by
running 'mv Xfiles/* . && rmdir Xfiles'.

You could also try simply running 'raspi-config' over SSH and seeing if
you can fix it that way.
--
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
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 by: nelso...@gmail.com - Wed, 29 Mar 2023 02:44 UTC

On Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 9:29:10 PM UTC-5, jeshgrca wrote:
> startx shouldn't have screwed anything up unless you were running as
> root AFAIK, but you could try messing with the .X* files in your home
> directory, something like 'mkdir Xfiles && mv .X* Xfiles/' and then try
> logging in. If that does nothing you can revert the previous command by
> running 'mv Xfiles/* . && rmdir Xfiles'.
>
> You could also try simply running 'raspi-config' over SSH and seeing if
> you can fix it that way.

Issue resolved. In the long run it was as simple as 'sudo rm ~/.Xauthority'. I came to that attempt as one of the boot messages was timeout error on file /home/pi/.Xauthority. So I just deleted the file (ssh from another computer) and all was normal. Whew. --Steve

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 by: jeshgrca - Wed, 29 Mar 2023 03:28 UTC

"nelso...@gmail.com" <nelsonse48@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tuesday, March 28, 2023 at 9:29:10 PM UTC-5, jeshgrca wrote:
>> startx shouldn't have screwed anything up unless you were running as
>> root AFAIK, but you could try messing with the .X* files in your home
>> directory, something like 'mkdir Xfiles && mv .X* Xfiles/' and then try
>> logging in. If that does nothing you can revert the previous command by
>> running 'mv Xfiles/* . && rmdir Xfiles'.
>>
>> You could also try simply running 'raspi-config' over SSH and seeing if
>> you can fix it that way.
>
> Issue resolved. In the long run it was as simple as 'sudo rm
> ~/.Xauthority'. I came to that attempt as one of the boot messages was
> timeout error on file /home/pi/.Xauthority. So I just deleted the
> file (ssh from another computer) and all was normal. Whew. --Steve

Some pemissions/ownerships most likely got switched around, thus causing
X to crash and kick you back to the login screen.
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