Hi all;
Question since I came across a weird issue on my mom’s laptop (Acer Aspire) that I just installed Linux Mint on over the holiday break. She’s in another state, so I’m debugging remotely.
Occasionally when booting up, she’ll get to the GUI log in screen with the selection for individual users, she’ll enter her password and press enter, and then it will just end up with a black screen with the regular Linux Mint cursor.
The weird thing is that after rebooting and going into GRUB, selecting Advanced (option #2), and clicking continue boot normally, it will go right back to the login screen and boot normally with no black screen. In fact the one video I found of this is the one that basically told me to do just that - go into advanced, continue normally.
My question is, what causes this; is this just a quirk of Acer? It doesn’t happen on my two computers so it boggles my mind.
Did she recently update graphic drivers or is she running out of space on the boot drive? Those are the first things i’d check.
If you hit ctrl-alt-F2 do you get a terminal login screen? You can type dmesg in that terminal to see the boot messages and see if an error is being thrown at login.
I did read about disk space but it’s pretty clean; it was a fresh install, no Windows.
Home is on a secondary drive, Linux on SSD. Plenty of space according to File Manager.
The graphic drivers are the standard that came with the Laptop; going into Driver Manager showed no updates necessary.
It could be a quirk of Acer indeed.
A propos, the advanced option of the Grub menu with Linux Mint will just show all the kernel boot options. For example, if you already have three or four older kernel versions you can choose among the older ones in case the new kernel would be causing problems. With a fresh install you would have only one kernel and its recovery boot option.
