<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Christopher,<br><br></div>I've had a similar issue with my VirtualBox Bio-Linux8 installation recently, and haven't done any of the things that Tim suggested might be the cause. I have yet to investigate further, and have just been logging in via MATE instead to overcome the issue. Running sudo service lightdm restart from a terminal gets you back to the login screen where you can then choose MATE instead of GNOME.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Steve<br><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 January 2015 at 12:00, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bio-linux-request@nebclists.nerc.ac.uk" target="_blank">bio-linux-request@nebclists.nerc.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 19:36:26 +0000<br>
From: "Dubay, Christopher J" <<a href="mailto:Christopher.Dubay@providence.org">Christopher.Dubay@providence.org</a>><br>
To: "<a href="mailto:bio-linux@nebclists.nerc.ac.uk">bio-linux@nebclists.nerc.ac.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:bio-linux@nebclists.nerc.ac.uk">bio-linux@nebclists.nerc.ac.uk</a>><br>
Subject: [Bio-Linux] BioLinux 8 - Hangs after Login<br>
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On my first booting-up of BioLinux this year (2015), in a VMware under Windows 7 environment that had been working well, I was greeted with a new login screen image (green berries). Nice.<br>
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I logged in, and never get to a working GUI (the same thing happens for the Guest account), I get a GUI window with no menus/icons (just green berries). I can Alt+Ctrl+F1 to a terminal, but cannot restart the GUI ('sudo service lightdm restart' just returns me to the GUI window with no menus/icons as before).<br>
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I tried an 'sudo apt-get update', no joy. I am willing to try a reinstall, however I wanted to check with the community to see if this a Ubuntu or BioLinux problem. Seeing the login desktop image change just made me wonder; and I have never had a Ubuntu VM act this way.<br>
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Has anyone else ever seen this behavior?<br>
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Thanks, and Happy New Year...<br>
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Christopher<br>
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Christopher Dubay, PhD<br>
Biomedical Informatics Program Manager<br>
Laboratory of Molecular and Tumor Immunology<br>
Earle A. Chiles Research Institute<br>
Providence Cancer Center<br>
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