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Arch installation did exactly what I told it to do, which was pretty stupid. [Edit: Solved] (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by superkret@feddit.de to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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So this is completely on me:

I installed Arch
I installed the plasma desktop without any additional programs
I installed sddm and told it to launch plasma desktop
I rebooted

And it did what I told it to do perfectly:

I'm now within plasma desktop.
I have no terminal emulator installed, so no way of accessing a command line from within the GUI.
Whenever I reboot, I get put back into plasma desktop.
I tried to switch to a different tty with Ctrl+Alt+F-keys but that key combo seems to be used for additional desktop sessions instead (shows me the sddm login again).
I tried creating a shell script that launches pacman and installs a terminal, but I can't, since I don't have a text editor installed.

Help!

[Edit: Solved. I was able to go to a different tty after disabling function keys]

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[–] Whom@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you have GRUB or another bootloader that lets you directly set kernel parameters on boot? You could try replacing "quiet splash" or whatever you have there with "text"

[–] Whom@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Hold on, I think that parameter is ancient. I think this is a more modern way to do it: https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/01/how-to-boot-to-console-text-mode-in.html?m=1