Whonix Gateway is not starting

[Patrick]

@stremio7

An the cursor is stuck blinking on blank black background(TOP LEFT POSITION) forever.

no login prompt / getty not started on tty1 anymore in Whonix 16 (Debian bullseye based)

There is no issue with rads. If there is “not enough RAM”, rads does not attempt to start gdm3. There could have been a bug in theory if rads supported only gdm but not gdm3. Then with “not enough RAM”, gdm3 would have still been started, because rads might have missed to inhibit autostart of gdm3. But that’s not happening here. The root cause is that Virtual Console tty1 is missing by default which is a systemd issue: For first boot into Whonix CLI: The workaround until virtual conso…