No more login prompt after update to `librem5-image`

[librem5]

Received an update yesterday.
And phone doesn’t seem to provide login prompt anymore.
I can ssh into phone so it’s booting up just nothing after that, what can I do?

[joao.azevedo]

hello, you can follow these instructions:

Major Issues after "OS Update" on Librem 5

So to elaborate on that one: If you had SSH access configured, it should be easy - WiFi should still work, and you should be able to ssh to your phone as usual in order to perform the recovery. If you had no SSH access configured, but you have a USB keyboard around, you can plug it in (either via hub or USB-A to C adapter) and press Ctrl+Alt+F2. You should then see a login screen where you can login (login: purism; password: your password used on the lockscreen) and perform the recovery from …

[librem5]

Thanks will have a look at this.

[Gunnar]

Good day.

I have not yet updated my phone. Before I attempt to do so, how would I configure ssh so that in case of failure, I have options?

[Sarcasmo220]

The safe way to update is to use the terminal commands ‘sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade’

The problem lies (or lied, as @dos said it has been corrected) in the way the PureOS Store handled packages.

[krimskrams]

Access to ssh is good to have. I often update my phone and perform other tasks from my desktop using ssh. You can follow a step by step guide here. For better security I would read down to “ENHANCING SECURITY FOR SECURE SHELL” on the same link, and disable regular password for logging in over ssh.