Troubleshooting • GUI not working after installing and updating Bookworm

Over a month ago I started a thread viewtopic.php?p=2293231&hilit=sdcard+co ... e#p2293231 as I was starting to build a couple new Pi4's with bookworm. But the builds did not come up as I expected from previous builds using Buster.

As far as I can determine the problem is best described as

• 1. the bookworm install goes normally using the Raspberry Pi Imager - ID, PW, etc adding via the edit settings
  2. Desktop GUI works
  3. install some apps like NginX, Samba, additional users, ...
  4. sudo apt update / sudo apt upgrade
  5. And after reboot the Desktop GUI comes up but does not respond to ID and PW, just re-displays to logon box when I hit enter

OK, I'm now coming back the Forum with this issue. I can not believe that I'm the only one seeing this issue? My workaround creating a backup of the SD card is a DD solution viewtopic.php?p=2296781&hilit=rdk#p2296781. But that is not ideal and I really would like to be able to get to the Desktop GUI for the cloning and other operations, especially remote access via VNC.

So is there a fix? Or is it something I have done wrong?

Statistics: Posted by RDK — Sat Mar 08, 2025 6:33 am

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