On 01/24/2018 10:05 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Setup: > lubuntu 17.10 as vbox vm guest on Solaris-11 (openindiana) host. > Host harware is HP xw8600 workstation. > Vbox version is 5.2.6 > > This is a pretty recent install (a few days old) but has been working > normally thru several reboots over a few days. > > I did do an update thru the software updater tool during the last > uptime before the recent reboot where this problem showed up.. Not sure > what was installed during the update perhaps it is recorded somewhere? > But more than 1 item was installed. > > What I see on a bootup is the appearance of the greeter with login > box. I then login, after the login is accepted, in a few moments I > see the white cursor arrow appear on a black screen... .. After > waiting a bit I began to realize that the regular desktop was not > going to put in an appearance. > > Since then, I've given reboots a nice long wait to make sure my > desktop was, in fact, mia. > > So a black screen but no panel or icons, and its not possible to get > any response with mouse > > Really had no clue how to debug but guessed it would be one of the > components of the lxde setup. > > `aptitude search lxde' showed the meta pkg `lxde' and all the > components as not being installed (because the lubuntu-desktop was > installed at install) I thought maybe if I installed all lxde > components ... whatever was broken might get fixed.... It did not > ... still getting the black screen after the greeter login is > accepted. > > I'm also running `bionic' (beta lubuntu?) in a vbox vm as well, and so > far this has not happened there. Though it does make me a bit `gun > shy' about allowing the update software tool to make any updates. > > Hi Harry,
It would benefit us to learn the contents of your xerrors, as I suspect this would give an indication as to what went wrong. You can also drop to a TTY (not sure how to do this in VBox since I use virt-manager) and then log in there. Once logged in you can copy your: ~/.xsession-errors and ~/.xsession-errors.old you can also check dmesg and look at systemd logs via journalctl You can use journalctl for kernel logs also alternatively by using the --dmesg option I think by looking at the xsession errors it might give a clue what happened. Did you install any software on top of the vanilla Lubuntu install? -- Regards -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
