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Problems with installing Debian-Testing in a Virtualbox and on an old Toshiba-Laptop

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Hello!

This is the first time I am writing to a Debian mailing list.
Therefore I don't really know whether or not this is the right place
for this mail. Please tell me if not. I want to report the following
problem.

Last week I tried to install Debian in a virtual-box. Currently I use
Debian 8.7 for running the virtual-box program. I managed to install
Debian stable without any problems. Then I cloned the virtual-box and
tried an upgrade to Debian-testing. I think, it worked. After a while
I shut down the virtual-machine. When trying to reboot, it did not
start properly. I just got some messages like 'Created slice User
Slice of Debian-gdm.', 'Starting User Manager ofr UID 117.', and
finally 'Started Daily apt activities.'. Then the virtual display just
starts blinking. Nothing else happens. After three minutes or so the
display freezes.

Then I thought, okay, maybe the virtualbox program has got a bug. So,
I downloaded the Debian-Testing-DVD-1 via jigdo-lite and copied it to
a USB drive. I tried to install Debian-Testing on an old laptop, a
Toshiba Satellite from 2009. Unfortunately I don' remember the exact
model number. I had already installed Debian Stable without any
problems on that laptop some months ago. The Debian-Testing installer
worked fine and finally, it asked me to reboot the PC. After rebooting
similar problems occured. There was a message about the graphics card
and after 30 seconds the display started blinking. Nothing else
happened.

As I have written above these errors only occured with Debian-Testing.
Debian-Stable worked fine on Virtualbox and the Toshiba laptop. So, I
don't think there are some hardware problems.

Now, the question remains, where to post this bug. I'd be glad at any help.

Best regards,
Michael Siemmeister

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Problems with installing Debian-Testing in a Virtualbox and on an old Toshiba-Laptop Michael Siemmeister <m.siemmeister@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 12:50 +0100
  Re: Problems with installing Debian-Testing in a Virtualbox and on  an old Toshiba-Laptop Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 14:10 +0100
    Re: Re: Problems with installing Debian-Testing in a Virtualbox and  on an old Toshiba-Laptop Michael Siemmeister <m.siemmeister@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 15:00 +0100
      Re: Problems with installing Debian-Testing in a Virtualbox and on an  old Toshiba-Laptop Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-02-16 15:10 +0100
        Re: Re: Problems with installing Debian-Testing in a Virtualbox and  on an old Toshiba-Laptop Michael Siemmeister <m.siemmeister@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 18:20 +0100
  Re: Problems with installing Debian-Testing in a Virtualbox and on  an old Toshiba-Laptop Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 19:40 +0100
    Re: Re: Problems with installing Debian-Testing in a Virtualbox and  on an old Toshiba-Laptop Michael Siemmeister <m.siemmeister@gmail.com> - 2017-02-17 15:20 +0100

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