On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:49 AM, Ric Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/15/2016 04:13 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Ric Moore <[email protected]> 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
