# Bemused-thorns login

**URL:** <https://community.start9.com/t/bemused-thorns-login/5773>\
**Category:** StartOS Support\
**Created:** [September 27, 2026, 10:00am UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/bemused-thorns-login/5773 "2026-09-27T10:00:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![uqhs](https://community.start9.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@uqhs](https://community.start9.com/u/uqhs)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 10:00am UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/bemused-thorns-login/5773/1 "2026-09-27T10:00:34Z")

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Hello,

I have a problem when booting StartOS since I updated to 0.4.0.1. My sytsem always gets stuck displaying “bemused-thorns login:”. I have no clue what to enter. Any help would be appreciated.

 ![1000009605](https://community.start9.com/uploads/default/original/2X/8/83722720d0c182f6b350d71f96b311c920ecc6d8.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![h0mer](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/h0mer/32/20_2.png) [@h0mer](https://community.start9.com/u/h0mer)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/bemused-thorns-login/5773/2 "2026-09-27T12:02:32Z")

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Hi

This looks totally normal. You have kiosk mode disabled, so you need to access your server from another client using a browser and your mDNS address, “bemused-thorns.local”.

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**Author:** ![uqhs](https://community.start9.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@uqhs](https://community.start9.com/u/uqhs)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/bemused-thorns-login/5773/3 "2026-09-27T17:43:35Z")

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Thank you very much. Dont know why it disabled kiosk mode but that was the issue. 👌

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**Author:** ![George](https://community.start9.com/user_avatar/community.start9.com/george/32/91_2.png) [@George](https://community.start9.com/u/George)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.start9.com/t/bemused-thorns-login/5773/4 "2026-09-28T17:32:55Z")

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It is disabled by default.