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Decided to give Vanilla Dpup a spin today, unsuccessfully I'm afraid. Booted it from USB stick that I had created with Rufus, and made initial settings as normal, language, timezone, etc. Then the "restart X" message came up as usual, clicked on that and the screen went blank, and stayed blank. Went off and made a coffee, came back and the screen was still blank, nothing had happened.
Any ideas as to what's gone wrong? Have I done something silly, or missed something?
Thanks
Yes I pressed the "enter" key few times and pressed the space bar couple of times. Also clicked the mouse few times as well. I will probably give it another go in a couple of days, see if same thing happens again.
Hi @stevie pup. In the interest to replicate, could you share 2 pieces of info on your VPup test?
Which version; namely
v9.2+
v9.3+
v10.+
v11.+
Note: the '+' means the specific version number you have this problem as each version is a little different from the other versions.
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Are you booting via BIOS/Legacy or booting via UEFI
Will try to replicate if you supply the info.
I've checked the ISO file and it's 9.3.17. Booting via Legacy BIOS, my laptops are too old (2009) to have UEFI. 
Thanks
stevie pup wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 6:30 pmYes I pressed the "enter" key few times and pressed the space bar couple of times. Also clicked the mouse few times as well. I will probably give it another go in a couple of days, see if same thing happens again.
I remember that I had the same problem when I tested 9.3.13. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace got me out of the blank screen to a normal terminal display.
MochiMoppel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 10:59 pmI remember that I had the same problem when I tested 9.3.13. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace got me out of the blank screen to a normal terminal display.
Oh I'm so glad when someone else has had similar problem, at least it goes some way to showing it's not just down to my stupidity. 
Anyway, gave it another try and same thing happened again. So came out of it, started again and created save without restarting X. Rebooted and all is ok.
I have had issues when using Vanilladpup on new setup if I tried to do too much before I rebooted and created a save folder.
My impression was as I have a low memory pc 4 Gb that the os was running out of resources. It would then act up often freezing. Sometimes I could get to a terminal screen and sometimes it was a hard power off.
So now I just run a quick config and reboot make my save folder and then continue my configuration after the reboot. I have had no issues sense I started doing that.
d-pupp wrote: ↑Tue Apr 18, 2023 3:41 pmI have had issues when using Vanilladpup on new setup if I tried to do too much before I rebooted and created a save folder.
My impression was as I have a low memory pc 4 Gb that the os was running out of resources. It would then act up often freezing. Sometimes I could get to a terminal screen and sometimes it was a hard power off.
So now I just run a quick config and reboot make my save folder and then continue my configuration after the reboot. I have had no issues sense I started doing that.
Yes, I had similar problems and I have 8G of RAM, freq reboot when first installing/setup seems to eliminate this problem.
stevie pup wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:45 pmI've checked the ISO file and it's 9.3.17. Booting via Legacy BIOS, my laptops are too old (2009) to have UEFI.
Thanks
I've just downloaded the v9.3.17 ISO file to my SG2D USB. Attempted the Vanilla boot choosing 'RAM only' from its boot menu.
The distro boot STOPS!!! Typing 'debugsave' at the stopped prompt, creates a log of what happened.
Vanilla development might want to take a look. I am suspecting an change in WoofCE INIT that is causing problems. Hopefully @dimkr sees this and takes a look.
see attached.
This file is missing from above.