Bug#716799: Boot ending in a blank screen

[Patrik Nilsson <nipatriknilsson@gmail.com>]

This bug happened again and this time I was more prepared.

Some time ago I assigned "ctrl+alt+t" to run a terminal as in Ubuntu. I
pressed the keys to open a (invisible) terminal and then moved the mouse
cursor over the screen.

The mouse cursor changed shape when reaching the (invisible) edges of
the terminal window.

Then I clicked (still invisible) on my name (right top) and logged out.

At this point Gnome started to draw everything, as expected.

Then I could log in again and do my work.

(I have set auto login to my user account, when Debian starts.)

/Patrik

On 08/11/2013 11:16 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Control: tag -1 - moreinfo
> 
> On Sun, 2013-08-11 at 11:02 +0200, Patrik Nilsson wrote:
>> It is a normal monitor that is switched on with black pixels. It is a
>> laptop, so I can't adjust screen brightness.
> 
> There are normally special keys or key combinations to change the
> backlight brightness...
> 
>> (I can see nothing of a faint image, just black.)
> 
> OK, sounds like backlight control is not the problem.
> 
> Ben.
>