[Discuss] installation problem

[jdm at moylan.us (dan moylan)]

it's been interesting to follow the discussion on gnome3,
which i personally found annoying in the extreme (gnome3,
not the discussion).  charlie bennet mentioned xfce, which
sounded good, and finding it a part of xubuntu, i thought
i'd give it a try -- lightweight is good.

i put xubuntu 12.04/xfce on my asus and was quite pleased --
no problems -- think i'll stay with it until i see something
better.

however, when i installed it on my acer aspire, i must have
screwed up somehow.  when i tried to login via the gui, it
went off into never, never land -- blue xubuntu screen, no
response from anything.

i fumbled through grub recovery, remounted /, reset the
password for moylan, but no go.  while in recovery as root,
i did set up a root password and found later that i was able
to login via the gui as root, and from there to su into
moylan.  helpful, but no way to live.

also i was able to login just fine via the text screen
obtained via ctl-alt-F2.

hmmm ... struggle, struggle.

############### your laugh for the day! ################

hot damn -- i tried the login once more just to make sure i
wasn't saying anything stupid, and .... it now works!  i
know it didn't first thing this morning, and i didn't do a
damn thing.  you won't believe that, of course, and frankly,
neither do i, but there it is.

i hate it when this happens.

ole dan

j. daniel moylan
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