Problems starting after installation.

[Owen Thomas]

On Wed, 2 Jun 2021, 2:36 pm Owen Thomas, <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I have recently had my Dell Latitude 5511 returned to me from Dell when an
> issue I had with the computer appeared to require replacement of some
> hardware.
>
> Windows had been installed by Dell, yet I wanted my computer to have
> Ubuntu 20.04, so I installed Ubuntu from a USB overwriting the installed
> Windows. The installation appeared successful: there was one complaint
> early on when checking the installation that one file had errors and there
> may be errors later.
>
> I restarted the computer when prompted to restart it by the installation
> process, removed the installation medium (the USB stick) when prompted to
> do this, pressed return. Ubuntu successfully started. I completed the
> post-installation process by not setting up any cloud services, allowing
> anonymous usage information to be sent, and not permitting location
> information.
>
> I then restarted the computer and a short while after the Dell splash
> screen was displayed accompanied with a small Ubuntu circular insignia
> below, the screen went blank and I was left with nothing more than a
> flashing cursor in the top left of screen.
>
> I have repeated this process four times.
>

This problem can apparently be worked around.

On startup, the main login screen appears to stop loading. I can switch
with Alt-Tab-F2 to the second login session and then switch back with
Alt-Tab-F1 whereupon the cursor stops flashing and after perhaps several
seconds one is presented with the desktop manager's login screen and normal
operation resumes.

The system will behave this way if I restart the computer, but this
behaviour will not be observed if I reawaken it from standby.

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