Bazzite Stuck on Verifying Installation after update
I'm trying to boot my steam deck gnome image and it seems to be permanently stuck on a Verifying Installation screen, after connecting a keyboard I can switch TTY use ctrl + alt + f4 but it asks for a login I don't have.
I've tried
bazzite as both user and password as well as root and neither seem to work
Any troubleshooting tips?26 Replies
the login is the user you made during installation
if you didnt set one up its by default bazzite with the password
bazziteif this is a new install just let it verify it will take some time and it should just finish, if this is an old install its steam messing up
as of now the conclusion is that my device is bricked and I need to reinstall
it's an old install with an unknown user password
well as i said there are only 2 posibilities with the user
you made a username and password and you promptly forgot it
or you didnt and its bazzite/bazzite
yeah, that's totally on me
'tis not, I tried that
connect a keyboard into the deck and boot into emergency mode
ctrl+alt+delete from the tty to reboot
alright
Booting to Rescue & Emergency Mode - Bazzite Documentation
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.
once youre in emergency mode
grep "1000:" /etc/passwd to find your user
then passwd username to change the password
once thats done reboot and boot normallyalright
hmm, I'm having difficulty with getting the grub menu
it's not showing
if it still hangs up try switch to tty and reboot normally and if it still does not work then switch to tty and run
steamos-session-select plasma and you will be on the desktop, from there open the terminal and run ujust fix-reset-steam and it should reset steam and that might fix the issue
press ESC when booting IIRC
just repeatedly press itit just brings up the bios instead of grub
if you get to the grub command line, type normal
oh finally, got to it
yeah you were a bit too quick 😛
easiest would be go into boot menu and select bazzite/fedora and then press esc
if this can save you from having to do a reinstall it would be worth it
booting into emergency mo- annnd it booted into steam again
I'll try it again, one sec
using a different parameter this time
should just be
emergency unless your install is from like 2023
at which case youre cooked for sureit is 😅
ah
well then
if neither emergency or rescue works then there isnt much we can do without risk breaking the install completely
I'm perfectly happy to reinstall completely, there's nothing on there that isn't backed up by steam cloud saves
well last resort would be
init=/bin/bash to get into a root shell but it would potentially break selinux labels
so super not recommended
as emergency and rescue avoids that issuethe issue is uh, the image I got from the website last night is having the classic 2023 scaling problem but worse because even forcing the resolution through grub doesn't change the fact that I can't get input working
try choose safe graphics?
will do 👍
it appears my luck is really bad today, the install media is corrupted
:/
honestly the frustration is getting to me a bit, I think I'll sit out on this for a day or two
Without even steam breaking I would call this install bricked and just go ahead and reinstall
Not knowing your password is a fatal mistake and any time spent trying to debug this would be wasted time