From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-01-24 00:33, Nuno Silva wrote:   
   > On 2026-01-23, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2026-01-23 22:18, Eli the Bearded wrote:   
   >>> In comp.os.linux.misc, Carlos E.R.  wrote:   
   >>>> At least in openSUSE. No /home, no login, it silently fails (at least in   
   >>>> graphical mode).   
   >>>   
   >>> Graphical mode. That could be your problem. But that's fixable with a   
   >>> a little care for your X11 config. With no xsession or xinit files, it   
   >>> should spin up a single xterm, maybe with twm. Wayland probably hasn't   
   >>> got a fallback.   
   >>   
   >> If you can not login, you can not fix anything.   
   >   
   > What's still puzzling me here is that passwd and shadow are under /etc,   
   > so... login should work regardless of /home being mounted or not?   
   >   
   > Perhaps unless this is going through PAM and there is some module doing   
   > something more than logging in?   
   >   
   > (Would such systems still have a single-user mode/runlevel available?)   
      
   Well, I don't know the details of how the system is setup, not that far.   
   Being dumped into "/" as user would not work, even if it opens, because   
   the user has no permission to write anything. A graphical session tries   
   to open config and session files that are not there, thus it tries to   
   create them. Maybe that is what in fact happens, the graphical session   
   starts then crashes.   
      
   In text mode, I don't remember what happens, but there is trouble. My   
   test machine on vmware has a /home directory, not mount, so I can not   
   test there.   
      
   I have met people that were not aware that a console mode existed in   
   their machines, typing ctrl-alt-f1.   
      
      
   Ah, yes, openSUSE does have "runlevel 1", single user.   
      
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
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