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Software - Support => Other => Topic started by: Zead on March 04, 2015, 02:24:15 PM
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Worked fine before, I reinstalled Linux Lite, and now I'm sometimes getting blank screen with a mouse cursor instead of login screen, also when I lock screen. The only thing I can do is press power buton to shutdown computer.
I don't dual boot, and I disabled blank screen option, in power / lite locker settings and even in screensaver settings. Someone encountered it?
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Try this - https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/index.php?topic=1556.msg10954#msg10954 and see if your pc still goes blank.
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Hi, it doesn't work. And I need session locking. I didn't really changed anything much from previous installation, something must have got corrupted during installation or something.
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Have you installed any drivers at all?
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New drives? No. I just have a 3 partitions, first is for Linux Lite, second for swap, and third is a NTFS partition for data with checked "do not use this partition". I don't use separate home partition.
Btw, I followed Linux Lite's documentation, where you recommend mount point for a NTFS partition, I typed in /home/username/DATA. I ended up with default XFCE desktop and ugly icons... So I did another reinstall, the same happened. Then I did another, but this time, I left the "do not use this partition", and it booted up into default Linux Lite's desktop. But I doubt it has something to do with that, first I thought my USB stick was damaged. Some weird glitch though, I saw one thread about this on this forum somewhere, but it was unanswered.
If I have to reinstall system again, I will wait for Lite 2.4
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The question was drivers, not 'drives'.
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Sorry, I saw drives.
No I didn't install any drivers.
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Do you know what video card/chipset you have?
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ATI / AMD Mobility Radeon X2300 / 256MB
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Well you shouldn't need a video driver, I'll have to sleep on this one. You could go for reinstall, I doubt 2.4 is going to make a difference it's practically the same with newer software, settings, tweaks, etc. This time just mount any NTFS partitions on the root file system, eg. /myntfs
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Also make sure your downloaded iso matches the correct md5sum.
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Yeah I know, there aren't any proprietary (if I'm writting it right) drivers for me. I heard they work only on old kernels for X2300. I know, OK, thanks, I'll do that. Anyway, I did MD5 check.
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I had the same problem today, turned of the computer after running updates and when i turned it on again after a few hours i only saw a black screen. Left it there for over an hour but only saw black screen and mouse pointer. Had to use clonezilla to put back backup and now its running fine again.
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Might post this in Terminal :
inxi -Gxx
& see what graphic card that you have on computer .
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I had the same problem today, turned of the computer after running updates and when i turned it on again after a few hours i only saw a black screen. Left it there for over an hour but only saw black screen and mouse pointer. Had to use clonezilla to put back backup and now its running fine again.
Interesting... Do you know which update caused it? I reinstalled my system right when some new updates came out, so that's probably why I didn't have any problems before.
But I don't see anywhere more people reporting this bug...
Did you install the updates again, and it works now? Or you didn't install them?
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Might post this in Terminal :
inxi -Gxx
& see what graphic card that you have on computer .
This is the outcome of it:
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV710/M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4530/4570/545v] bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:9553
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: [email protected]
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV710 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
I had the same problem today, turned of the computer after running updates and when i turned it on again after a few hours i only saw a black screen. Left it there for over an hour but only saw black screen and mouse pointer. Had to use clonezilla to put back backup and now its running fine again.
Interesting... Do you know which update caused it? I reinstalled my system right when some new updates came out, so that's probably why I didn't have any problems before.
But I don't see anywhere more people reporting this bug...
Did you install the updates again, and it works now? Or you didn't install them?
I dont know what caused the problem. But after putting back the image i ran update again and booted a few times and all still works without a problem.
Only error i get is : ureadahead terminated with status 5
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Found this link on this issue , hopefully it will give you a hand : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2200010
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Found this link on this issue , hopefully it will give you a hand : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2200010
Thanks for the link.
I actually get the following error:
init: ureadahead main process (240) terminated with status 5
I will have a look into the link when i get back from walking the dog.
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Their s a link here which explains the issue but no fix , but might help in a way : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2098569
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Just wanted to say that I don't have anymore this problem (for now), after few days, like it "fixed itself". I didn't install any updates or changed any settings.
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Thanx for the comeback , some times computers do some weird stuff .
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This problem came back, but I installed lightdm-gtk-greeter, and this one works well.
There are reports on the internet, that the lightdm-webkit-greeter gives black screens on some hardware.