I'm doing some Multi-booting just to keep an eye on some distros. On a Lenovo ThinkPad I have three different distros on the laptop SSD and a couple more on an external Sandisk SSD.
I wanted to do the same thing on my older Acer. Here on the HDD I have UltraMarine, Solus and Garuda. I have Reborn on the SSD and on a transcend 128 GB USB stick. For some reason, although the Acer can boot Garuda, when I try and boot reborn on the Sandisk or the USB stick, once I put my user ID and password, I get to the opening screen. I have to use a logitech mouse and an external keyboard, since the ones on the machine are worn out. But once I try and click on any icons to start a program, the screen goes dark and I get taken back to the login screen.
I havre Secure Boot disabled. Confused as to why this happens especially since it doesn't with Garuda, which seems to be similar. I can look at Files on the SanDisk or on a western digital SSD. I just can't boot Reborn. I can boot Redcore Hardened from the Sandisk however.
Hi @Starrfleat
Which desktop environment is this?
Are you able to login to the tty with Ctrl Alt F3 ?
I’m using Gnome DE.
I logged in, then used your instructions to access terminal. From there I used the Pac-Man command to refresh and do a system upgrade. That ran just fine. But when I rebooted and tried to run Firefox or Freeoffice I got returned to the login screen. I’m thinking next to try and run the arch equivalent of chkdsk. I think I’ll have to download and install it first.
That is very strange. When did this start happening? Was it right after installation?
Now that I think about it more, when I tried to run it from the transcend USB stick on my Lenovo ThinkPad, it was doing those things with the Budgie DE. The Lenovo has never been able to handle Budgie, so I switched to Gnome, because the Lenovo had those symptoms with the Budgie DE. Since the Acer is doing this with Gnome, I may have to try a more slender DE. It doesn’t exhibit these things with other distros using Gnome. But maybe there’s something about Reborn that makes it more memory intensive.
RebornOS is just Arch Linux with an extra package repository and minor fixes for missing backgrounds, for missing theming, and for Nvidia black screen. I believe RebornOS should not have any new problems that Arch Linux already doesn’t have, except for (once-in-a-while) outdated packages in our repository.
It’s weird, maybe with xfce ( lighter ) it would work. Good luck.
I tried installing RebornOS to my transcend USB stick using both LXDE and LXQT desktops. DE Kept returning me to the login screen. QT I could login, but the opening screen graphics were scattered all over the place and I couldn’t do anything on that screen.
My best guess is that my Acer laptop is just too old for RebornOS. So I’ll just reinstall the GNOME DE and use that exclusively on my newer Lenovo.
Let us try figuring out. Is this an old installation or a new installation? We can get it to work. I have RebornOS running Gnome on a 15 year old Lenovo. Could you join our Discord server for instant messaging?
I’m going to have to go back to exchanging messages by email and taking things more slowly. I really can’t sit down for more than 10 minutes or I get exhausted at 71 years old.
Right now I have the absolute latest reborn OS with gnome DE installed and multi booting on a sandisk one terabyte SSD, along with Garuda Linux and redcore hardened. I say the absolute latest because from the command line after logging in from CTL/alt/F 3 I did a Pac-Man refresh and installed all the latest stuff. I’m still having the error where if I login at the login screen, I can’t use either my Mouse or keyboard, whether on my Acer laptop itself or my external logitech keyboard and mouse. I tried a Microsoft mouse and it made no difference.
I tried downgrading the kernel, but reborn wouldn’t let me do that. I tried installing different screen drivers but that had no effect. Scanning around with Yandex search engine, I see in the past that arch has had this sort of problem back in 2015 and I think perhaps some other times since then. but since I’m using Garuda and don’t have this problem I’ll have to suspect that it’s something in the reborn system.
I think a good place to start would be for me to initialize and connect Wi-Fi from the command line after logging in. Then I need a key and I can do from you that will record everything that happens that shows on the screen between the time I select initializing in reborn from the boot screen, and writes all of this to a file in the documents folder. Hopefully the file can be created and closed even if I have to shut down because I can do nothing after doing a sign in from the sign in screen. Then I’ll send this to you as an attachment in email.
To compare you’d have to match the desktop environment you use on Garuda.
Another thing you can check: On the login screen, you can click on the username and then find a gear icon that gives you a menu. From there switch the session between X11 and Wayland.
It would be nice if you can collect the data, yeah. Because we test here before every release and I am trying to figure out what is going on in your installation, so that we can fix it.
I have gnome installed on both Garuda and Reborn. Even though my Lenovo is under five years old, the Budgie desktop locks it up and I can’t do anything with it.
I don’t know why, but Garuda is also having the same problem with the login screen asb Reborn. I also have Redcore Hardened installed on the same external SSD, but I have no problem so far boot into that.
I’ll have a look at that gear thing and see what that does.
When I tried to sign into reborn yesterday, I got these errors within the notifications from the time I turned on the power switch until I got to the login screen:
No probe with driver AC failed with error -17
Integrity: problem loading X. 509 certificate -65 (twice)
fails to get diagnostic page 0X1
Failed to bind enclosure -19
Is this before or after you get the graphical login screen with usernames?
Before.
In my next message I’ll tell you what clicking that gear got me, what worked and what didn’t.
When I bring up that gear as you instructed by clicking on my name at the login screen, these are the choices that I get:
Gnome
Gnome classic
Gnome classic on Xorg
Gnome on Xorg
Only the last two work, and I can login and click icons to run programs like on any other distro. No idea why, but hopefully my last two messages give you a breakthrough.
I am unable to find the first error message in searches, but the second one could either be harmless or a faulty HDD. Here is more information: 18.04 - Integrity: Problem loading X.509 certificate -65 - Ask Ubuntu
Your computer seems to have a problem running Wayland if only the Xorg session works. We can diagnose it after you can enter your installed OS
I can enter gnome DE if I do one of the gnome xorg sessions. Let me know what key to do, and I can do them from the terminal within that.
Also, this SSD Drive has Redcore Hardened with gnome DE, which I can get into with no problems. It’s just when I tried the arch variants that I have to use an Xorg version of Gnome.
I am sorry. Could you remind me what your pending problems are apart from not being able to run sessions that don’t say Xorg (which means Wayland sessions are not working).