New Endless OS user… medium familiarity with other linux distros and windows. I did a clean install on a Lenovo x64 machine with Endless 3.1.8 via ISO image on a USB HD.
The glitch I am experiencing is twofold 1. some apps take the user back to the login screen when launched from the desktop and 2. regardless of how you arrive at the login screen deliberate or otherwise, after logging in, you arrive back at the login screen instead of the desktop, sometimes entering the username manually works, sometimes it doesn’t
willing to try to sort this out if someone can help me… thx
We have heard of similar issues with crashes that return to the login screen, and are investigating, though the problems appear to be timing-related and difficult for us to reproduce. We are preparing for our next major release (Endless OS 3.2), which updates much of the core OS infrastructure and will include many bug fixes, but I’m not sure whether this issue will be resolved.
What I can tell you is that at least in the cases I’ve investigated, there appears to be a timing-related issue, and the problem logging in can usually be worked around by waiting a few seconds after seeing the login screen before typing the password.
That said, I’m not familiar with any apps that take the user back to the desktop upon launching, so any details you can provide would be helpful. For example, which apps are causing this? Do those apps fail consistently? If you can grab a debug log right after attempting to launch those apps, it would be helpful in diagnosing the problem.
When you say you are running on a USB HD, is this running in “live mode”, where nothing is saved from one boot to the next? If so, that could make it tricky for some apps to install and run successfully, because in live mode all apps are “installed” in memory rather than on disk, and the system can easily run out of memory which could very well cause the session to crash. If you are able to do a permanent installation onto the USB HD, I would expect that you would have much better results.
