I could reproduce the exactly same behaviour now also within a VirtualBox session! See also updated description.
** Description changed: 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. + edge highlights the active corner. But there is no pop-up menu on right + click. If I now press the power button, the log out dialog shows up. Confirming that, the log in screen is displayed. If I now login again, I end up with an empty KDE Desktop, no panel. After adding the default panel manually I can work as usual with the Live Session. + + Update: I could reproduce the exactly same behaviour now also within a VirtualBox session! + I've used the "Ubuntu(32bit)" OS setting and 2GB of RAM for the guest. + + BTW: Using 4GB RAM the behaviour is a bit different: + Instead of a fully black screen, I get a black screen with panel. + But still no pop-up menu on right click. A click on the Panel's App launcher leads to a crash and restart of plasma. After that Plasma seems to work ok. + This behaviour I also observed on real 64bit Hardware, when booting from 32bit ISO. + 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) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1627348 Title: Live DVD boots to black screen with mouse pointer To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta/+bug/1627348/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
