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Hello all,

I've installed LL and 1st reboot after installation only have the yellow background with feather, no icon, no desktop. What am I missing?



Thanks is advance.

LL SPECS:
-LL 3.4, 64-Bit.
-Installed via USB using Universal USB Installer (UUI) (tried two different USB sticks).
-Have tried with Wi-Fi (yes and no).
-Do updates (yes and no).
-Install 3rd party software (yes and no).

INSTALL OPTIONS:
-Erase disk and install Linux
--Encryption new Linux install for security
--Use LVM
-Added disk encryption security key

PC SPECS:
-HP G71-329WM Notebook PC (2009)
-2.20 GHz Intel Celeron processor 900
-Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500M (Up to 1695MB)
-4GB Ram
-320GB HDD (5400RPM)
-Updated to lastest Bios F23

I'm using LL on an ancient 32-bit 'puter with very modest specs.  When that happened to me the first 3 or 4 times I re-started using the power button.  When that didn't work I waited it out - a full 2 or 3 minutes, and it finally booted up.  Your specs are much better and you're using a 64-bit machine so my experience may not be helpful at all, but just say'n... try just waiting a little bit.

I wonder if it's a Grub2 thing... lots of trouble with it on my other computer running PCLinuxOS Xfce, it seems the latest version is buggy.  Just out of curiosity, the installer asks where you want the bootloader installed... hopefully you specified your HDD.

@RB 
Didn't get a message regarding the bootloader installation. Thanks for the help. Figured out what was causing the hang up, it was the hard drive encryption.... No Bueno! :'( Reinstalled for the 8[sup]th[/sup] time with HDD encryption unselected and BOOM!, after the yellow feather screen it went black and saw a blue screen with a mouse than back and to the yellow screen with a feather and desktop icons/menus. 

One thing I noticed that after the install and reboot LL never asked me for the encrypted HDD password when I installed with HDD encryption enabled.  :o

Is HDD Encryption broken?!

Is there a way to encrypt HDD after LL install?

EDIT:
Found this:
https://www.howtogeek.com/116032/how-to-...ng-ubuntu/

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/zest...ome.8.html

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Encryp...eDirectory

https://www.johannes-bauer.com/linux/luksipc/

From the Help Manual - "Note: If you want to encrypt your home folder, do not select the option 'Encrypt the new Linux installation for security' instead, please follow these instructions here." See the Install page. Cheers.

[member=2]Jerry[/member]
Thanks but I would have preferred full HDD encryption during initial install. Ran into the HOME folder encryption option when  I was searching around for solutions. So the question is the Full HDD Encryption during install broken ( Debian and/or Ubuntu issue?)? Wanted this option due to heading to vacation/holiday and financial data.

Thanks!

PS
Great work with LL. It just zooms around on this old laptop and feel like home!  :-*

(07-19-2017, 06:30 AM)Jerry link Wrote: [ -> ]From the Help Manual - "Note: If you want to encrypt your home folder, do not select the option 'Encrypt the new Linux installation for security' instead, please follow these instructions here." See the Install page. Cheers.