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tight lagoon Mar 13, 2026, 3:42 AM

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I installed Mint XFCE freshly. After the computer goes to sleep for a while I touch a key to wake it back up. When the password screen appears, I type in my password but it instantly loops back to the password screen. I have entered the terminal via CTRL+ALT+F1 and entered my username and password, it worked instantly. This login loop appears to affect only the GUI. Any fixes?

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This same issue was appearing on Cinnamon earlier when I installed Cinnamon, and I thought XFCE would fix it. Guess not.

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This may be a hardware issue. I will continue to investigate tomorrow.

fading ember Mar 13, 2026, 4:48 AM

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from TTY such as TTY1 or TTY4, log in and then show results of inxi -SMGxxx ; mokutil --sb

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note the spaces and lettercase precisely as shown above.

tight lagoon Mar 13, 2026, 6:53 PM

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Hey @fading ember

Output:

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This is the best I could do

tight lagoon Mar 13, 2026, 7:22 PM

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I ran

sudo systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target

Which seems to have resolved it

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It’s a laptop in headless mode anyways

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But it’s likely a hardware GPU issue right?

fading ember Mar 13, 2026, 7:28 PM

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nothing bad from info

fading ember Mar 13, 2026, 7:29 PM

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tight lagoon It’s a laptop in headless mode anyways

is the integrated screen ripped right off?

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nvm it shows eDP-1 there

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