(lightDM-) login frozen and keymap error messages after update

hank2121 · 2026-05-17T10:15:05+00:00

well, after three days (in total) of upgrading (GhostBSD/Xlibre) and get it running , re-installing and configuring painfully my VirtualBox VMs, the last big...

hank2121

OK, couldn t wait and made a fresh installation. The basic system tog. with LibreOffice, Ungoogled-Chromium and Wireshark. Plus one or two apps to get the complete whisker menue structure.
At Xfce-/desktop I switched to greybird and xfce-elementary-style again and kept zsh as default shell.
Now with the latest update I got to GhostBSD 26.1 ... p8 and without login trouble or missing keyboard and/or mouse.
Another update-station check said: I m on actual level and no updates available. So I guess, it was my sticking to Bash as default shell, that did the problem and keeping zsh did the trick to work!?
Although I have now the problem of missing permissions to change the desktop background (although being a member of "wheel" and "operator"), the rest seems to work. I ll carefully add now programs and permissions and will see, if I got stuck again somewhere on my Toshiba...

hank2121

ok,guess, I found the problem of frozen login: I tried to re-install VirtualBox after most apps working again.
Unfortunately it comes with xorg-Server and when I rebooted the laptop I was stuck again in frozen login screen, no mouse, no keyboard.
Is VirtualBox incompatible with new GhostBSD 26.1 under Xlibre and is bhyve and its graphical admintool workin?
Did someone try out and is there a chance to get VirtualBox woking again?
In the meantime I ll do another re-install without VirtualBox and see how far I come... sigh...

hank2121

ok, challenges get more n more.
three different USB stick installations let to one (!) successful restart with rEfind on three different laptops (2 Lenovos, one Dell Latitude 7490) and couldn t for any sake activate wlan on that Dell, so now on LAN.
With all stick installation (even on different ports) it did not find any bootable devices, although first restart worked!?
So had to repeat all this via DVD installation, then You get a persistent reFind.
At least the Lenovo TP T520 works with wlan; now trying to install AND boot GhostBSD 25.02 and try to upgrade this way, hpefully with VirtualBox included. well, simple and elegant is not quite right at the moment...

hank2121

hank2121 sorry, seems, I cant delete the posts, that are offtopic in here. I created new posts but wd like to delete the content in here...

hank2121

OK, a for now last update:

couldn t get a successful installation via USB stick, neither with Balena Etcher, nor Rufus, that would create a working boot environment with 26.1 or 25.02. only working with a burnt DVD
have now three version: old 25.02 xorg- one on desktop, an upgraded 26.1 xorg-version from 25.02 and a fresh 26.1-version with xlibre on the Toshiba
The upgraded one with Xorg will be my testbed for VirtualBox; the ThinkPad T520 may crash, but then it s easily re-installed.... ;-)

hank2121

aehm: except for the package collection in software-station, how can I check, if xorg or xlibre is running? it always show X11 when trying on command line? ;-)

vimanuelt

Each question should have a different topic instead of loading numerous off-topic questions to a lightdm thread.

hank2121

vimanuelt oops, You re right. I ll work on it tomorrow and will spread the different subjects into different posts, promised.

hank2121

ericbsd ooops, with all posts I lost overview. Thx Eric, will check this over the weekend and try my best. ;-)
On my ThinkPad testbed system is on xorg after upgrade, so I can test both versions later, VirtualBox with xorg and with xlibre, that s good.

hank2121

alright, thx for all Your help and patience - ;-) - I now have my desktop still on GhostBSD-25.02 (xorg), but my Toshiba Portege is now on 26.1 with xlibre-server and fully working (well, no VirtualBox so far) plus my Thinkpad T520 is on 26.1, but with upgraded version, keeping xorg as server.
Guess, VirtualBox with xlibre-additions (as suggested by Eric) would work, as I tried a simple VM installation of 'Syllable', but I ll keep testing this on the T520 and xorg. More RAM space and disc space there for virtual machines.

My end result is: it was a mix from Bash as (preferred) shell plus the wrong VirtualBox-packages, that caused my LightDM freezings with no mouse & keyboard, starting with the upgrade to p8. Now staying on zsh and delegating the VM things to my Thinkpad, all updates worked well and I ll try to keep it that way on the Toshiba for some time.
T520 now my testbed for everything - if it goes wrong, I ll re-install from scratch. :-)
For other testings and models, pls have a look on my other post 'installation via USB stick...'

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