On 05/14/2015 01:50 PM, Ken Heard wrote:
When the fifth one, “Loading the desktop”, appeared the icon flashed for 50 seconds, then the flash screen disappeared, leaving only the original blue screen
It started happening to me after the last kernel update. A few other things updated at the same time, including some Trinity stuff, and I'm traveling and haven't had the internet access or time to try to debug it, so I don't know for sure that it's the kernel.
I went back to the earlier version of the 64-bit kernel, and then it started once, but since then the problem is still occurring. For the moment I'm working around it by using the 486 kernel, which I also have installed, and which works.
I'll figure it out when I get home in a few days; hopefully someone else will have come up with a solution in the meantime.
One pet peeve I have with Debian is the (as far as I know) inability to have more than one version of kernel installed at a time, so you can choose an older version at boot time. That makes it a lot easier to debug kernel-related issues. You can have 486/686/AMD64/whatever all installed, but only one version of each.