Whonix asks for login

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Its totally random i boot into normal mode and the screen will be black with only text
LOGIN username

Sometimes it happens on the gateway sometimes on the workstation, most of the times it doesnt happen at all. i try user username changeme , no luck

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Sounds like an intermittent autologin failure (you’re seeing the graphical login screen). Can you boot into sysmaint mode, and run sudo journalctl -u greetd.service? If there isn’t any personal information in the logs (there very likely is not), it would be best to share them in their entirety.

Many of the messages there that look like errors probably aren’t or aren’t important, such as:

  • requirements "uid eq 0" not met by user "sysmaint"
  • Greeter daemon was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionPathExists=!/run/rads/rads-block-display-manager-startup.status)
  • XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is unset

Other messages would be worthwhile to look for. (Failed to create session: Resource deadlock avoided and error: check_children: greeter exited without creating a session may also be normal, but I’m not 100% sure.)

Edit: Also, what virtualizer are you using? I haven’t seen this bug before in VirtualBox or KVM, I’m currently trying to reproduce it in VirtualBox but without success.

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