Re: Odd issues with Stretch installation

2016-09-15 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 4:33 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > Ric Moore composed on 2016-09-16 03:49 (UTC+1000): > >> Chris Angelico wrote: > > > I don't see that either of you have mentioned your hardware in this thread. > If non-working Xorg is your root problem, maybe you're up against a broken > drive

Re: Odd issues with Stretch installation

2016-09-15 Thread Felix Miata
Ric Moore composed on 2016-09-16 03:49 (UTC+1000): Chris Angelico wrote: I don't see that either of you have mentioned your hardware in this thread. If non-working Xorg is your root problem, maybe you're up against a broken driver and a switch is called for: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.ph

Re: Odd issues with Stretch installation

2016-09-15 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:49 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/15/2016 04:13 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Ric Moore wrote: >>> >>> On 09/14/2016 10:43 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> The first sign of failure was that, after installation, the GUI didn't load

Re: Odd issues with Stretch installation

2016-09-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/15/2016 04:13 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/14/2016 10:43 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: The first sign of failure was that, after installation, the GUI didn't load properly - just a black screen with a mouse cursor. In trying to track down

Re: Odd issues with Stretch installation

2016-09-15 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:54 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/14/2016 10:43 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> The first sign of failure was that, after installation, the GUI didn't >> load properly - just a black screen with a mouse cursor. In trying to >> track down the failure, I found the disk to be f

Re: Odd issues with Stretch installation

2016-09-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/14/2016 10:43 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: The first sign of failure was that, after installation, the GUI didn't load properly - just a black screen with a mouse cursor. In trying to track down the failure, I found the disk to be full, so I didn't bother analyzing it any further. Same prob

Odd issues with Stretch installation

2016-09-14 Thread Chris Angelico
Hi! Not sure how best to report this, as I have no idea what Debian package (if any?) handles the installer. In trying to test an Xfce patch, I spun up a virtual machine (using VirtualBox under my main Debian Stretch installation, though I doubt that makes any difference). The virtual hard disk I