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Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment
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How to keep Linux running after closing the crosh shell? #2574

Closed danielpyon closed 7 years ago

danielpyon commented 8 years ago 
Please paste the output of the following command here: n/a

Please describe your issue: I bought a Hisense Chromebook and installed XFCE. The first time, it was working fine. Then, whenever I start XFCE and close crosh, it doesn't let me switch with ALT+CTRL+F1. It used to, however. Basically, the Linux OS doesn't work after closing crosh, even though it used to. I am super new to this, because it is my first time using a chromebook (I bought it today).

If known, describe the steps to reproduce the issue: I am not sure, but after restarting the chromebook and typing CTRL+C while trying to terminate the Linux in crosh, it started to happen.

raidzero commented 8 years ago

Try ctrl+shift+alt+f1, also I am not sure you can close the shell that launched the xorg environment, doing so would probably terminate the shell and X session

DennisLfromGA commented 8 years ago

@danielpyon,

What @raidzero said is all true, here is a bit more explanation.

I noticed you wrote 'n/a' instead of providing us with the output of: sudo edit-chroot -all (croutonversion) We ask for those details in order to see exactly what you've installed (targets, xmethods, etc.) and what hardware you're using. Those are often important details and help us troubleshoot issues.

The key-combo ALT+CTRL+F1 is depricated and has been for a couple of years now. To switch between 'Chrome OS' and your 'chroot' please use CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+F1/F2

In order to close the crosh window and keep the crouton chroot running, you can use the '-b' option, something like this:

sudo startxfce4 -b

The 'start*' scripts use edit-chroot's options, the '-b' option is explained below:

    -b          Fork and run the specified command silently in the background.

Hope this helps, -DennisL