[Bug 1627348] [NEW] Live DVD boots to black screen with mouse pointer

[Lars Bischoff]

Public bug reported:

I've tested booting from the Kubuntu 16.10 beta ISO on a
Acer Travelmate 290, 1,8GHz Pentium M, 2GB RAM, Mob. Radeon 9700 Gfx.

System boots fine until the selection of "trying" or "installing" Kubuntu.
If I select "try", system continues, finally shows the KDE login splash, then ends up with a black screen and visible mouse pointer.

Plasma seems to be active though: Moving the Mouse to the upper left
edge highlights the active corner.

If I now press the power button, the log out dialog shows up. Confirming
that, the log in screen is displayed.

If I know login again, I end up with an empty KDE Desktop, no panel.
After adding the default panel manual I can work as usual with the Live
Session.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: syslinux (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-11.12-generic 4.8.0-rc6
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.378
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sat Sep 24 16:55:05 2016
LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha i386 (20160921)
SourcePackage: syslinux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: syslinux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 yakkety

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Title:
  Live DVD boots to black screen with mouse pointer

Status in syslinux package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I've tested booting from the Kubuntu 16.10 beta ISO on a
  Acer Travelmate 290, 1,8GHz Pentium M, 2GB RAM, Mob. Radeon 9700 Gfx.

  System boots fine until the selection of "trying" or "installing" Kubuntu.
  If I select "try", system continues, finally shows the KDE login splash, then ends up with a black screen and visible mouse pointer.

  Plasma seems to be active though: Moving the Mouse to the upper left
  edge highlights the active corner.

  If I now press the power button, the log out dialog shows up.
  Confirming that, the log in screen is displayed.

  If I know login again, I end up with an empty KDE Desktop, no panel.
  After adding the default panel manual I can work as usual with the
  Live Session.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: syslinux (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-11.12-generic 4.8.0-rc6
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-11-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.378
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Sat Sep 24 16:55:05 2016
  LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha i386 (20160921)
  SourcePackage: syslinux
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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