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After upgrading to 13.2 STABLE from 12.4, everything was fine for a day.
But now I have lost the GUI (was XFCE4) and cannot SSH in.
Where would you start troubleshooting this? I would be truly grateful for any advice you may have.
For example, try and get SSH working, the desktop working? Try and figure out why these are not working to begin with? .shrc problems?
I love the box, but I am not under the hood with it much. I have a backup of the original os disk prior to the upgrade, but not sure all of that would be the way to go.
What would you do?
I still see my shared storage pools.
Details:
Everything seemed fine after the upgrade, although my bhyve VM which was running an instance of HomeAssistant would no longer boot.
After researching, I tried downgrading a package that was causing others issues. I ran package checks all was good. It didn't fix the issue so I reverted until I could figure something else out. I was restarting between these actions and all seemed fine.
What else was going on, I have always used su for root access, I started to use sudo -i after reading about it in a thread.
At any rate much later in the day, I put a Raspberry Pi on the network to temporarily run Home assistant. I had to update it using a backup from when the instance was running in the VM. There was no network clash as the iP's were different. But shortly after that, I lost RDP into the FreeBSD box. When I booted up the direct monitor and keyboard on the box, there was a mostly black screen with a desktop nav bar at the bottom and a black X mouse cursor.
I rebooted the machine and there was no Desktop and I cannot access via SSH
Seems odd that the Raspberry Pi restoration might mess with the box, but ....
Also, I did get a message on the box that there was another instance of the hosts file name for the box on the network. Not sure how that might have occurred, but possibly from the Raspberry Pi backup?
I disconnected the Pi and still same behavior from the box.
I also noticed there is a nonexistent folder listed in my $PATH, but seems like it was a mistake from a long time ago. "...home/db/bin"
After upgrading to 13.2 STABLE from 12.4, everything was fine for a day.
But now I have lost the GUI (was XFCE4) and cannot SSH in.
Where would you start troubleshooting this? I would be truly grateful for any advice you may have.
For example, try and get SSH working, the desktop working? Try and figure out why these are not working to begin with? .shrc problems?
I love the box, but I am not under the hood with it much. I have a backup of the original os disk prior to the upgrade, but not sure all of that would be the way to go.
What would you do?
I still see my shared storage pools.
Details:
Everything seemed fine after the upgrade, although my bhyve VM which was running an instance of HomeAssistant would no longer boot.
After researching, I tried downgrading a package that was causing others issues. I ran package checks all was good. It didn't fix the issue so I reverted until I could figure something else out. I was restarting between these actions and all seemed fine.
What else was going on, I have always used su for root access, I started to use sudo -i after reading about it in a thread.
At any rate much later in the day, I put a Raspberry Pi on the network to temporarily run Home assistant. I had to update it using a backup from when the instance was running in the VM. There was no network clash as the iP's were different. But shortly after that, I lost RDP into the FreeBSD box. When I booted up the direct monitor and keyboard on the box, there was a mostly black screen with a desktop nav bar at the bottom and a black X mouse cursor.
I rebooted the machine and there was no Desktop and I cannot access via SSH
Seems odd that the Raspberry Pi restoration might mess with the box, but ....
Also, I did get a message on the box that there was another instance of the hosts file name for the box on the network. Not sure how that might have occurred, but possibly from the Raspberry Pi backup?
I disconnected the Pi and still same behavior from the box.
I also noticed there is a nonexistent folder listed in my $PATH, but seems like it was a mistake from a long time ago. "...home/db/bin"