On Monday, May 8, 2017 at 7:14:06 PM UTC-4, Myron Weber wrote: > Sorry, this is long, but it's perhaps the strangest thing I've ever seen > happen to a computer - and I started programming in 1979 when I was in Jr. > High... > > I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T460 laptop that previously had Qubes OS 3.1 > installed and functioning, but I removed it and installed Ubuntu Mate because > some of the things I needed to do (i.e. Skype) weren't easy to do on Qubes. > When I read about some of the improvements in 3.2, I decided to try it. I > pulled the Ubuntu drive and tried to install 3.2 this weekend to a new SSD. > But I couldn't get it to install - just stuck in a reboot loop, even after I > tried some of the UEFI bug fixes. So this morning I decided to install 3.1 > and see if I could upgrade to 3.2. That's when things started to get weird. > > After the 3.1 install completed and I logged in to the configured OS, the > screen came up asking if a wanted to use the default configuration, and as > soon as I touched the mouse, the screen went blank. Keep in mind this is the > exact same computer that previously ran 3.1 flawlessly. What I found over the > course of several reboots and a reinstall (which still had the same problem) > is that after I logged in, moving the mouse pointer (with the trackpad, > pointing stick, or external mouse) would cause the display to go blank. (I > didn't get a chance to test it with an external monitor because of what I'll > describe below.) By randomly moving the mouse pointer, the screen would > flicker between black and normal, and if I got lucky I could get the screen > to redisplay so I could see it. At that point, if I didn't touch the mouse, I > could use the keyboard to interact with the OS. I launched a terminal, > updated Dom0 - no change after reboot to the weird mouse/display thing. > > So I was using a different computer to research options while my Qubes OS > desktop was logged in (I had moved the mouse randomly until the screen was > displaying). Then after a few minutes I noticed the display rapidly > flickering - now not from normal to black but from normal to very bright. I > found that the screen was frozen - no response to any keyboard or mouse. So I > held down the power button for a hard shutdown. That's when things got REALLY > weird. > > When I restarted the computer, as the Lenovo logo screen came up, the screen > was flickering as before and the exact Qubes OS screen that was displayed > prior to the shutdown was displayed along with it - like a screenshot (but > flickering) overlayed on the normal display. It continued all the way through > the boot and login, then the screen froze and continued to flicker the same > image. Over the course of several restarts, and going to the BIOS menu, etc., > this flickering Qubes desktop was like it was burned into the screen. I was > pretty freaked out. I powered completely down and put the Ubuntu Mate drive > in, and even then the flickering Qubes ghost image displayed with the Mate > desktop. At a loss, I shut down and got some work done with my other > computer. > > An hour later, I started it up again and the flickering Qubes image was still > there, but fainter. Basically over the course of about 5 hours, each time I > booted the computer, the flickering Qubes ghost image was successively > fainter until finally it was gone. > > What happened? What did Qubes do to my laptop?
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