[Bio-Linux] BioLinux 8 - Hangs after Login

[Steve Moss]

Dear Christopher,

I've had a similar issue with my VirtualBox Bio-Linux8 installation
recently, and haven't done any of the things that Tim suggested might be
the cause. I have yet to investigate further, and have just been logging in
via MATE instead to overcome the issue. Running sudo service lightdm
restart from a terminal gets you back to the login screen where you can
then choose MATE instead of GNOME.

Cheers,

Steve

On 7 January 2015 at 12:00, <bio-linux-request at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk> wrote:

> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 19:36:26 +0000
> From: "Dubay, Christopher J" <Christopher.Dubay at providence.org>
> To: "bio-linux at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk" <bio-linux at nebclists.nerc.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Bio-Linux] BioLinux 8 - Hangs after Login
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> 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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