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veerendra

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Registered: 2026-02-25

Posts: 7

System stuck at login screen after entering password

Hi everyone,

I am running into an issue where I cannot log into my system. It boots to the login screen fine, but after I enter my password, it just gets stuck and won't let me enter the desktop environment.

**Hardware:**
* Laptop: Infinix Y2 Inbook
* RAM: 8GB
* Storage: 476GB SSD

**The Issue:**
* The system boots normally to the login screen.
* I type my password and hit enter.
* The system freezes/hangs right there (it does not load the desktop).

**Logs & Troubleshooting:**
I am currently investigating the filesystem from the outside (not in a chroot). I have been looking through `dmesg` logs and files in `/etc` and `/home`, but I'm not sure which specific log file will tell me why the session is failing to start.

Could anyone point me to the right log files (like Xorg, Wayland, or journalctl) to check for a login freeze like this? Thanks!

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 73,365

Re: System stuck at login screen after entering password

Could anyone point me to the right log files (like Xorg, Wayland, or journalctl) to check for a login freeze like this? Thanks!

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … al_to_view

sudo journalctl -D /mnt/var/log/journal -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

What is your DM and target session and can you log in on the console (ctrl+alt+f3)?
Getting "stuck" could be due to a bogus shell rc (bashrc etc) or ~/.*profile

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veerendra

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Registered: 2026-02-25

Posts: 7

Re: System stuck at login screen after entering password

veerendra

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Registered: 2026-02-25

Posts: 7

Re: System stuck at login screen after entering password

Sir when I try to restore the previous it shows me this error

seth

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From: Don't DM me only for attention

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 73,365

Re: System stuck at login screen after entering password

Were those meant in response to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=312373 ?

The screenshot in #3 is meaningless, upload the journal if you want to have a comment on it.
What's the context of the second screenshot?
Don't sudo, you're already root.
The snapper dameon doesn't run, cannot be accessed or doesn't exist.

pacman -Qikk snapper
ps aux | grep snapper

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Erwin Iosef

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Registered: 2024-05-22

Posts: 102

Re: System stuck at login screen after entering password

Try reading from the end of the journal, journalctl -e.