From: ldo@nz.invalid

On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:06:03 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:

> On 2026-01-22 00:51, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:32:57 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>
>>> When repairing the computer, /home is out of commission, and text
>>> login does not work, for some reason.
>>
>> If text logins don’t work, how would you expect GUI logins to work?
>
> I have seen it happen once.
>
> Nobody could login in text mode because one of the tools doing it
> was broken in an update, while the graphical login used different
> tools.

I’ve never seen that, but in any case, I can think of several likely
ways of fixing it. E.g. booting in single-user mode used to work, but
I think the convention nowadays is to demand the root password even
then. So how about booting with “init=/bin/bash”?

As a last resort, there is SystemRescue ... always keep a copy handy
on a USB stick!

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