[Bio-Linux] BioLinux 8 - Hangs after Login

[Dubay, Christopher J]

On my first booting-up of BioLinux this year (2015), in a VMware under Windows 7 environment that had been working well, I was greeted with a new login screen image (green berries). Nice.

I logged in, and never get to a working GUI (the same thing happens for the Guest account), I get a GUI window with no menus/icons (just green berries). I can Alt+Ctrl+F1 to a terminal, but cannot restart the GUI ('sudo service lightdm restart' just returns me to the GUI window with no menus/icons as before).

I tried an 'sudo apt-get update', no joy. I am willing to try a reinstall, however I wanted to check with the community to see if this a Ubuntu or BioLinux problem. Seeing the login desktop image change just made me wonder; and I have never had a Ubuntu VM act this way.

Has anyone else ever seen this behavior?

Thanks, and Happy New Year...

Christopher


Christopher Dubay, PhD
Biomedical Informatics Program Manager
Laboratory of Molecular and Tumor Immunology
Earle A. Chiles Research Institute
Providence Cancer Center
4805 NE Glisan St.- 2N57
Portland, OR 97213  USA
T: (503) 215-7981
F: (503) 215-6841

christopher.dubay at providence.org

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