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i googled around and found if one doesn't change an out-of-date partition in fstab (which can happen hopping about) all you get is a blank screen and emergency mode.... i commented out the offending out-of-date mount entry (cb in this case) and yay! back in! just wondered where and if i should write...

^ this is from a USB? - odd that sda1 is mounted...
are you going directly to the installer, not - for example - using files via thunar/filemanager before installing?

i <3 you mb

( to expand; what you've said is true for me. i'm not much of a fanboi, but you can't get any clearer, imho, than this. You and the BBQ has taken me further into linuxland than i thought i could. i have a long way to go, but i'm pleased to be on the journey...)

hi.
just thinking aloud here, have you checked the boot flag on your hdd?
(use gparted, rick click, flags - boot)
i guess that wouldn't affect a VM though.

have a gander at /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and look for any error reports.
if its a black screen might be gfx - is there anything on tty7?

rhowaldt wrote:somehow the fact that wux messed it up himself does not suprise me at all ;)

1st time round ok.
2nd time.. a fresh install.

anyway will try to mess it up some more....

still getting the login/out problem,
logs out fine,
try to login to default session (3d?)no joy,
this time going to 2d cinnamon in lightdm works ok but kills the background.

thanks man, 8)
not quite, the beach is on the golfe de morbihan the other side of brittany from us. taken on summer hols camping - we camped about 200 meters to the right of the pic.
if you look real hard, it's me, our two girls and the dog underneath the setting sun (wife's taking the picture)

Great news, i timed my reinstall! well, i know Rhow's excited, officially the cinnamon install took 3.5 minutes! (taking into consideration my USB stick is quite slow, could of used a USB3 stick, and it was with a grub install, could of shaved a few seconds of there, and hang on... who the fuck care...

re-install works - fan-daba-frikkin-dozy
the morale of this thread? sorry for shouting, more of a note-to-self...

computers are funny things, total logic in a box, but still capable of throwing a wobbler...

Stick works beautifully, must if been something i fiddled with before the install....

re my question about i915 I tried it on usb and i won't again. 8)

i think a quick re-install should fix it. if not...well i guess you'll hear.

thanks dura - i did have a good day - well a not so crap one.
ok
1- 2d (cheers dura) no change
2 - no conky - no conky + no change
3 - can't log in again at all. reboot only.

i will try the stick again, so i should really have booted from i915? if my chips are intel?
first time i've had to...

i have much to learn - even if you think it's boring

#1 a 3d session? how do i change that? #2 will do. #3 i figured, I thought there could be a conflict. from the USB it was fine, i even changed the wall to something on a mounted volume. hmm maybe it was that, i mucked around with the USB, then installed. I'm thinking the install pulls the files from...

now that ^ is a great compliment, thanks dkeg, still not happy with the colours.
i3status is a nice prog.

yup thats really nice.
good work 8)

^ hahah - i did,sadly, think about that (in the 'how sad would it be, if i timed this install, and how doubly sad it would be if i posted a scrot of...')
but by the time i'd thought about it - she'd installed 8)

check it out; http://ompldr.org/taDNmcQ every reboot. probably my machine, it's the same acer laptop. weird huh? EDIT: hmm can't seem to set any wallpaper... appears to be two different wallpaper tools, background - in settings, on it's own... with a fancy monitor picture. settings - cinnamon settin...

crunchbang finally wiped, fully grilled system
thanks 8)
to bed...