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Re: Fresh install gives no graphical login

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On 1/8/2017 10:10 PM, Tama McGlinn wrote:
> Dear Debian volunteers,
>
> I hope you can help me with a problem I've been experiencing since Debian
> Jessie; After doing a new installation, debian boots, but only presents me
> with a tty1 login screen, and no graphical session started. Here's what
> I've tried so far:
>
> -Different versions of debian: netinstall vs full CD, with and without
> live, with and without nonfree, amd64 or i386 (it's an i7 I'm trying to
> install to; I've done lots of googling and found many people asking how to
> tell architecture type, but no real answers, so I'm going to stick with my
> guess that amd64 is for 64 bit computers, and i386 is for 32 bit computers,
> and all the rest are for uncommon architectures that I will never need.) -
> that gives 16 possibilities, of which I have tried about half but every
> option gives the same result.
>
> -Different Methods of putting the iso on the usb stick: using `dd
> if=isofile.iso of=/dev/sdc; sync` (after checking that's the one with
> gparted or fdisk -l) ; right clicking the isofile and choosing "open with
> disk image writer" and "restoring" to the usb stick ; using mkusb(-dus).
> I'm doing this because my previous way, using unetbootin, is said to be
> obsolete for the latest version of debian, and because it wasn't working.
> (the error message led me to the article or question where I found it was
> obsolete)
>
> -Searching for other people with this problem; just a few results: Tried
> `startx` and `xstart` - programs don't exist. `grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log`
> that file does not exist on the fresh install, it does on all my other
> debian jessie installs which do work.
>
> -Tried with 2 usb sticks, these have been used in the past to install
> debian jessie to the same computer, (both of them - I install often) so I
> don't know what is different but it's very unlikely both usb sticks have
> become faulty.
>
> I have a current workaround, which is to dd my current installation onto
> the new harddisk, but I really want to have a clean install, which should
> go through the installer.
>
> I hope someone here can help me; the documentation is not very clear on how
> to "write the iso to usb" and I suspect that is what I have done
> incorrectly in this case.
>
> Kind regards,
> Tama
>

Due to bandwidth limitations I purchase DVD sets rather than 
downloading files.
However your description resembles I problem I had several years 
ago when ordering a live DVD. The description was unclear and I 
had erroneously assumed that all desktops were available on a 
single Live DVD. Of course the one I got hadn't specified a 
specific desktop as it was the CLI DVD ;)

What file did you download? from where?
Have you tried downloading by clicking on the box in upper right 
corner of
https://www.debian.org ?
HTH

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Fresh install gives no graphical login Tama McGlinn <t.mcglinn@gmail.com> - 2017-01-09 05:30 +0100
  Re: Fresh install gives no graphical login Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-09 08:10 +0100
  Re: Fresh install gives no graphical login Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2017-01-09 22:10 +0100
  Re: Fresh install gives no graphical login kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2017-01-10 06:00 +0100
    Re: Fresh install gives no graphical login Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2017-01-10 07:40 +0100
      Re: Fresh install gives no graphical login kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2017-01-12 04:20 +0100
  Re: Fresh install gives no graphical login Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-01-10 08:20 +0100

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