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Re: Fresh install gives no graphical login

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Op Mon, 09 Jan 2017 05:10:11 +0100 schreef Tama McGlinn  
<t.mcglinn@gmail.com>:

> 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

If you have an internet connection available in tty1 you can install a  
desktop with:
(as root)
apt-get install tasksel
tasksel --list-tasks
choose your favorite desktop from the list and install it with:
tasksel install <favorite>-desktop

Floris

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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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