Re: Odd issues with Stretch installation
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:49 AM, Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
Ah okay. I was actually unable to use Ctrl-Alt-F1 as it just switched
my _main_ system to console.
Since startx is working for you, it's probably unrelated to my issues.
ChrisA
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