Re: Odd issues with Stretch installation

[Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>]

On 09/15/2016 04:13 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 09/14/2016 10:43 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >
> > > The first sign of failure was that, after installation, the GUI didn't
> > > load properly - just a black screen with a mouse cursor. In trying to
> > > track down the failure, I found the disk to be full, so I didn't
> > > bother analyzing it any further.
> >
> >
> > Same problem. Only my tower has plenty of memory and disk space. I just get
> > a black screen, lonely mouse cursor in the upper left of my display. Yes,
> > the mouse cursor does move around. So, I open a terminal and startx gives me
> > the XFCE desktop. Ric
>
> How did you open a terminal? From that screen, or by booting in a
> different mode? When I tried that, I got a "no screens found" error,
> which has led me to a solution, of sorts (and which I've literally
> only just finished testing while writing this email):

By "terminal" I meant logging into a text-only terminal with ctrl-alt-F1
I'm not running a virtual instance, but the problem is the same with my 
primary XFCE4 desktop. I've google's but am not coming up with anything 
recent. Ric


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