Hi All,
In case this helps some people our there. I was intalling PBS on a server and it failed after getting the IP address and comes up with the error message for CTRL+ALT+F2 to see the error on another terminal and there you can see it fails to connect the xserver. Here is the fix,
on the initial screen just hit enter and it will bring you the bash prompt.
$ chmod 777 /tmp
$ apt update
$ apt upgrade
$ Xorg -configure
$ mv /xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
$ nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf # Find the line Driver "modesetting" and change modesetting to "fbdev"
//The above is within the device section, your setup might be with a different driver like amdgpu, just switch it to fbdev
$ startx
This should start your installation and finish it. Do not restart/interrupt during the install since this is temporary for installation. If you restart you will need to do it again.
In case this helps some people our there. I was intalling PBS on a server and it failed after getting the IP address and comes up with the error message for CTRL+ALT+F2 to see the error on another terminal and there you can see it fails to connect the xserver. Here is the fix,
on the initial screen just hit enter and it will bring you the bash prompt.
$ chmod 777 /tmp
$ apt update
$ apt upgrade
$ Xorg -configure
$ mv /xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
$ nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf # Find the line Driver "modesetting" and change modesetting to "fbdev"
//The above is within the device section, your setup might be with a different driver like amdgpu, just switch it to fbdev
$ startx
This should start your installation and finish it. Do not restart/interrupt during the install since this is temporary for installation. If you restart you will need to do it again.
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