On Sun, Sep 18, 2016, at 19:57, Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada <bellcanada...@gmail.com > > <mailto:bellcanada...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into my desktop..why plz help > > > > roberto > > 438 881 9269 <tel:438%20881%209269> > > all i get is ablack scren > > even recory mode doesnt help > > > > > > Do you get to a login prompt at all (graphical or text-based)? > > > > What happens if you press Ctrl-Alt-F2? > If the OP would do that, login as his user and enter "startx", I bet a > donut that he gets to his desktop. Mine is STILL boroken that way > ...POS. synaptic isn't fixed yet. <sighs> Someone just shoot me. Ric >
After a recent stretch upgrade, I experienced a similar problem. I use the XFCE4 desktop environment, the lightdm login daemon, and systemd as my init system. After "upgrading" and rebooting, I got a black screen with a mouse pointer. And that was it. I used the following procedure as a work-around: I used Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a text console. I logged in as root. I issued systemctl stop lightdm.service systemctl disable lightdm.service then I exited the root login session, logged in on the text console as my normal non-superuser self, and issued startx -- vt7 & This brought up my normal XFCE4 desktop on vt7, bypassing the lightdm login daemon. Of course after a reboot, the two systemctl commands won't be needed. The lightdm service will no longer start. I did notice one thing peculiar. startx output is written to the terminal of vt1, of course, even though it's running as a background task. And I got the error message modprobe: FATAL: Module mach64 not found in directory /lib/modules/xxx where xxx is the identity of the running kernel. Strange. The kernel has never had a mach64 module in it, as far as I know. mach64 is the name of the X driver, but there is no kernel module by that name. I obviously don't like using this work-around, but I can at least limp along until somebody somewhere fixes this problem. -- .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@fastmail.com> : :' : `. `'` `-
