This install needs to go with and existing /home that has all ~/.foo removed except a custom (bunch of aliases) ~/.bashrc. Was a Mate install for sentimental reasons but I run Xfce so it needs changed. Works fine at the tty. Couldn't come up with something that didn't work that I even rarely use. Boot to the desktop with a normal menu entry and lightdm will come up but not work. No keyboard action except Alt + Sysreq + b. Can't get back to the tty for instance. Not thinking too hard I tried # dpkg-reconfigure lightdm That was fun just gave me dbus.service is not active, cannot reload. invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "reload" failed. So worried about that for a while and then thought about xorg itself finally. Because startx didn't work (I don't do well at all over 80F and it has been over 100F for several days). This is what I get there xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 1 permission denied. I prefer netinstalls because I can install all the real basic stuff and then configure the system to suit me and do the rest at the tty or in a chroot from one of my other installs (preferred method). No recommends for one thing. Also have a couple of non-free firmware packages that are needed (AMD MB and Radeon card - don't need the fglrx stuff at all) so there are some changes made to /etc/apt/** but nothing at all unusual. I need the firmware-realtek package so that any sort of gui network manager will "see" things - get connected automatically fine but like to use wicd to disconnect at times. Install things like xorg and xfce4 after I have an /etc/apt/apt.conf file to block recommends. I know which ones I want. Shouldn't need any. Have three sets of packages I install and check between batches that the system boots as it should at that point. Never get to installing more than the basics to get a desktop up. Because it will not boot to a working desktop. startx doesn't work at the tty # prompt. This is not a userland problem. Have not filed a bug because I am completely bewildered by this and really have no idea what package to file a bug on. On 07/09/2017 10:38 PM, Phil Wyett wrote: > On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 00:04 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hey folks, >> >> We have a big problem with our Stretch KDE live images, and the >> problem seems to be KDE-specific. None of the other desktops show >> the >> same problem. Can you help please? >> > Hi, > > Can you indicate some of the issues as you know them at this time? > > Regards > > Phil >
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