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10 sats \ 6 replies \ @felipe 17 Dec \ on: 100k Sat Bounty - Help me regain access to my Start9 server bitcoin
Do you have physical access to the server?
If so, plug a keyboard on it and try to access and login on a TTY. You can access one with CTRL + ALT + F2 (or 3, or 4, or 5, or 6. 7 is usually where X is running)
After login, try running startx to see what happens. It'll probably throw an error saying that there's already an open display or session or something but, for now, we only want to know if you can get to this point
One more question: I'm not familiar with Start9. Is it a distro or is it something that runs on top of another distro? If it is a distro, which one is based on? Debian, Ubuntu, other?
Can't plug a keyboard into the thing, its running off of a rasberry pi.
StartOS is the distro, not sure what its based off on.
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Nice, that is progress
Can you open a terminal inside this kiosk mode you mentioned?
If so, before trying anything else, plug a usb drive and back up everything you think you might need later
After that, you can do the following:
sudo systemctl stop lightdm (or gdm if it can't find the lightdm service)this will stop the current X session and drop you back to a TTY
login on this terminal
rename files like
.Xprofile and .xsession or something like that to something else (I like to append .old)try to start a new session with:
startx (try to append --verbose to see if it throws any useful logif
startx didn't work, try
sudo systemctl start lightdmLet's see what happens after all that