Can't login after toggling numlock

kibartas · 2019-01-29 22:35:49

Hello. I followed this guide on how to toggle your numlock on startup https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ac … _on_Bootup and now when I boot, I don't get a login prompt. What can I do to fix this? What may be causing the problem, because I have no idea. I can't do anything. When I boot it just presents me with a completely empty terminal and no login prompt, just a flashing cursor. I tried switching terminals with CTRL+ALT+F* but it flashes me the login prompt for a split second and then just displays the flashing cursor like before.

Thanks in advance

jasonwryan · 2019-01-29 22:42:25

You can change your target on the kernel line, or chroot and undo the damage. In any event, please describe which approach you followed on that page.

kibartas · 2019-01-29 22:44:27

Thanks for the quick response. I followed the extending getty service way. I edited them both (the services) through systemctl edit /unit/.

Am trying to login through chroot right now

kibartas · 2019-01-29 22:56:22

Okay, so I got the other tty's working now. There was a mistake in getty@.service, I put a '>' instead of a '<'. But now the first tty just freezes while booting.

I deleted the getty@tty1.service conf file and everything seems to be working again. Strange

jasonwryan · 2019-01-29 23:09:37

kibartas wrote:

But now the first tty just freezes while booting.

You can read the journal for the failed boot to determine what went wrong.

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#1 2019-01-29 22:35:49

Can't login after toggling numlock

#2 2019-01-29 22:42:25

Re: Can't login after toggling numlock

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