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[Moltke]

Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life!
I'm having kind of an issue here. After upgrading my system and reboot I found that X doesn't start automatically; I get to the login screen to input my user and password - odd cause I'd enabled autologin - and after doing so it doesn't go further and I'm stuck looking at the mouse on the blue background. I have to do Ctrl+F1 to get into command line mode and run

Code:

$ startx

and I finally get to my desktop, apart from this everything seems to be working as it should.
Any help/guidance/advice is really appreciated
Thanks in advance for your answers!

[trinidad]

To clarify here: Are you referring to upgrade or update?

TC

[Moltke]

To clarify here: Are you referring to upgrade or update?

TC

To clarify I ran

Code:

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

[trinidad]

Honestly [member=7109]Moltke[/member]  I'm not sure if the auto-login setting can be passed on through an upgrade if you have any PPAs installed, or applications like special video controllers. I know a newly installed upgraded OS will show the XFCE mouse background in the first boot when run in qemu but then return to the default OS settings after login. Sometimes this occurs when working from root in grub edit terminals too, but it is just the OS passing through root first before login. I would think it should return to normal after your first login and logout, but you would have to re-enable auto-login. When it stops at the XFCE (blue screen with the little mouse) you are still in root. The fact that you have to run startx is probably a caused by video configuration change issue and the fact that you had auto-login enabled when you upgraded. 

TC   

[Moltke]

Hi [member=5916]trinidad[/member]
Well, I kind of "solved it" and by that what I really mean is that I've reinstalled LL and ditched Windows in the process by the way lol. I wasn't booting into it that much because of this overheating issue which make it impossible to work on windows; the CPU temps will go up sooner than later shutting down the pc, while in LL temps are more much lower so I can really use my computer. I spent most of my Sunday searching for a solution; tried I few things I found to isolate what caused it in the first place, read some logs, and another couple of things I don't remember now : think I never typed so many commands as I did yesterday lol  After several trials with no results I found this post which I'll gladly share as soon as I find again, which suggestion was that the problem could be in the ./config folder, and recommended to make a back up of it and reboot the pc, if the problem didn't show again then there was no doubt that the problem was there, if it persisted then it was something else. Well, I did that and when the pc restarted and LL start booting everything seemed to be ok, except that I wasn't presented with my old LL XFCE desktop but a debian one; wallapaper, menu, it was all debian. So somehow I managed to screw that directory way beyond repair or at least I wasn't able to. So I decided to go the easier way and reinstall LL, which gave me the perfect excuse to ditch windows as well as try a different approach when installing LL; not choosing "delete the disk and install" but "more options" which I never tried before, at least not with the entire disk available for a Linux OS and certainly not as explained on this post
Thank you for taking the time to answer!

[trinidad]

There is a Debian grub boot splash mired in the code somewhere that can appear when selecting GFX mode in grub. Perhaps that confused you when the grub menu came up. It is not possible that you had an actual Debian desktop even after all your fiddling with things. What was probably there was an XFCE setup without an application menu & launcher. Are you using Compton by any chance?

TC

[Moltke]

Hi [member=5916]trinidad[/member]

What was probably there was an XFCE setup without an application menu & launcher

It was XFCE Debian desktop; wallpaper, the dock, the applications menu on the top right corner, but it was LL in the background; all LL apps were there. It looked like a "Debian skin" for LL so to speak.

Are you using Compton by any chance?

I haven't installed it nor I did before. I'm running a new fresh LL install. I did enabled compositing in windows manager tweaks but that would be compiz, right?

There is a Debian grub boot splash mired in the code somewhere that can appear when selecting GFX mode in grub

Now that you mentioned grub, when I was updating LL that time on that old install I do remember a grub dialog popped up on the terminal, I must admit I always choose the default option cause I have no idea how to deal with it. I always say to myself that I have to learn how to do that stuff, for it has caused me problems in the past but always forget to actually do it :  Maybe that was what caused that whole mess in the first place. ???

[Moltke]

Hi [member=5916]trinidad[/member]
I found that post  I told you about that allowed me to isolate the problem. Scroll down right to the very end - it's not too long - of the page.

[TheDead]

I little too late now but I got that XFCE blue screen + cursor once in another distro.
I had to revert to a previous Kernel on boot and that solved the problem.

[member=5916]trinidad[/member] , again, maybe not the case with other distro, but with Linux Lite, I ALWAYS have autologin enabled and never had problems with updates/upgrades. Should I disable it next time ? :-O

[Moltke]

I little too late now but I got that XFCE blue screen + cursor once in another distro.
I had to revert to a previous Kernel on boot and that solved the problem

I tried this but it didn't work for me.

again, maybe not the case with other distro, but with Linux Lite, I ALWAYS have autologin enabled and never had problems with updates/upgrades. Should I disable it next time ? :-O

I don't think it had something to do with having autologin enabled, cause it's enabled in this new install and haven't had no problems so far.