Re: New user having trouble with new install
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 04:15:09PM -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote:
> On 7/11/15, Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> wrote:
>
> > That almost sounds like a video driver problem. Are you running a gui?
>
> As I said, I went with the default install, so I don't know what it thinks
> it's trying to run. I wasn't *expecting* one - I just need command-line
> on this thing. And it does (inconsistently) flash the login prompt right
> before the crash, so I'm guessing it's trying to run a getty on the console
> (w/o the graphic environment).
I also think it sounds like a video issue. You can try choosing the
recovery mode in grub and then removing the graphical stuff. I think
the default would have installed "gdm3", so you can check if that
package is installed, and remove it. (If it wants to remove a whole
bunch of other stuff, just go with it. Shouldn't be a problem since you
only want the command line.)
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