I'm not a Linux expert but build a NAS using OMV by going thru a tutorial .
It worked but when I applied the latest update today, raspbian stopped to let me login user pi.
symptom is: after boot sequence, GUI login screen appears , I enter user 'pi' and my password, press 'login' then screen goes black and after a while GUI login screen reappears.
during upgrade of ssh I was asked to apply new configuration or keep current config. I had selected 'keep current', might that be related?
Any idea?
issue after upgrade to 20200205 release
Last edited by mihol on Sun Feb 09, 2020 5:40 pm, edited 5 times in total.
Re: issue after upgrade to 20200205 release
in addition to GUI login issue, OMV web gui now reports below error when I try to login there
Error #0:
OMV\Rpc\Exception: Failed to connect to socket: No such file or directory in /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/rpc.inc:141
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/openmediavault/rpc/session.inc(56): OMV\Rpc\Rpc::call('UserMgmt', 'authUser', Array, Array, 2, true)
#1 [internal function]: OMVRpcServiceSession->login(Array, Array)
#2 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/serviceabstract.inc(123): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#3 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/rpc.inc(86): OMV\Rpc\ServiceAbstract->callMethod('login', Array, Array)
#4 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/proxy/json.inc(97): OMV\Rpc\Rpc::call('Session', 'login', Array, Array, 3)
#5 /var/www/openmediavault/rpc.php(45): OMV\Rpc\Proxy\Json->handle()
#6 {main}
Error #0:
OMV\Rpc\Exception: Failed to connect to socket: No such file or directory in /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/rpc.inc:141
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/openmediavault/rpc/session.inc(56): OMV\Rpc\Rpc::call('UserMgmt', 'authUser', Array, Array, 2, true)
#1 [internal function]: OMVRpcServiceSession->login(Array, Array)
#2 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/serviceabstract.inc(123): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#3 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/rpc.inc(86): OMV\Rpc\ServiceAbstract->callMethod('login', Array, Array)
#4 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/proxy/json.inc(97): OMV\Rpc\Rpc::call('Session', 'login', Array, Array, 3)
#5 /var/www/openmediavault/rpc.php(45): OMV\Rpc\Proxy\Json->handle()
#6 {main}
Re: issue after upgrade to 20200205 release
One possible cause of the GUI failing to launch is that the root filesystem is full. Another is bad ownership in /home/pi due to previous inadvisable use of "sudo".
You should be able to press Ctrl+Alt+F2 and then login using text mode for further diagnosis using "df" and "ls -al".
Re: issue after upgrade to 20200205 release
Ctrl+Alt+F2 got me logged in
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df
Open question: How to recover free disc space ?
in https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/a-new- ... nt-1521853 Simon Long suggested
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sudo apt –fix-broken install
Re: issue after upgrade to 20200205 release
found instructions on https://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/2017/1 ... apt-cache/
reduced to 82% usesudo apt-get clean
Re: issue after upgrade to 20200205 release
back in business now 

Re: issue after upgrade to 20200205 release
Also check /var/log for any large log files you no longer need.
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