Unable to log in to SO. Login screen mostly blank

[Randy Dutchak]

We're testing out SO, and I'm building it into our environment. It has a static IP address assigned, and it is installed on VMware.

In the VMware console, I load it up, and get the screen that is attached. I cannot type in it, and cannot get past the screen.

I've even reset the VM. It's not grabbing its IP address, so I can't access anything.

Ideas on what is happening, and how to fix?

[Wes Lambert]

Randy,

Have you tried pressing the escape key while it loads to see where /why it hangs?

Thanks,

Wes

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[Randy Dutchak]

I had not. Pressing escape, I unlocked the disk, it went through it's start up. Two items showed a failure, but whipped past them pretty fast. Then I got a login prompt. Entered my credentials, and I'm at the desktop...

Have ping and everything...

On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 10:32:48 AM UTC-7, Wes wrote:
> Randy,
>
>
> Have you tried pressing the escape key while it loads to see where /why it hangs?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Wes
>
>
> On Oct 18, 2017 1:29 PM, "Randy Dutchak" <randy....@live.com> wrote:
> We're testing out SO, and I'm building it into our environment. It has a static IP address assigned, and it is installed on VMware.
>
>
>
> In the VMware console, I load it up, and get the screen that is attached. I cannot type in it, and cannot get past the screen.
>
>
>
> I've even reset the VM. It's not grabbing its IP address, so I can't access anything.
>
>
>
> Ideas on what is happening, and how to fix?
>
>
>
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[Doug Burks]

Hi Randy,

When you say you "unlocked the disk", are you saying that you enabled
disk encryption in the Ubuntu installer?

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[Randy Dutchak]

I did not, but it asked me to enter my password to unlock the disk, which I found odd.

I'm pretty new to SecOnion, so I'm still trying to figure the entire thing out.

[Doug Burks]

That sure sounds like disk encryption. Please try re-installing and
make sure you're following one of our Installation guides (they
mention to avoid any encryption options):
https://github.com/Security-Onion-Solutions/security-onion/wiki/Installation

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Randy Dutchak <randy....@live.com> wrote:
> I did not, but it asked me to enter my password to unlock the disk, which I found odd.
>
> I'm pretty new to SecOnion, so I'm still trying to figure the entire thing out.
>

[Randy Dutchak]

I reinstalled, and it appears that things are working now. Odd, I'm certain that we didn't enable encryption. Thanks for the advice!