Just installed EndeavourOS from scratch, booted and logged in fine. Installed the deepin and deepin-extra groups, and adjusted lightdm to use the deepin greeter.
Rebooted, all good and I see the deepin greeter ready to login in. Login, and I get just a white screen with a cursor.
I found a thread in RebornOS that suggested this was an issue with the deepin-wm-chooser process, but was only showing in virtualbox environments. Any idea on what I could do to resolve this?
zoli62
November 13, 2019, 7:07pm
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Have you tried installing another desktop environment? Because it might be possible to test whether the problem is Deepin specific.
only xfce which is the default environment (that works fine). There is a white screen but goes away fast
Ok, I’ve tried budgie and gnome and they give the same problem
Have you tried it with GDM? I just installed it next to my Gnome install and there’s no white screen.
GDM install didn’t solve anything. Will try again from scratch
Intel UHD 630. It’s odd that only XFCE works for me, Budgie/Gnome/Deepin all give a white screen after I login
I have no problem seeing the login screen. The issue comes after the login screen. Once I login I see a white screen and cursor, and only XFCE continues beyond that point
opened 01:20AM - 26 May 18 UTC
closed 06:47AM - 23 Apr 21 UTC
Hi there! I am one of the main developers of Reborn OS, a distro founded with De… epin in mind. We offer all our users the option to install your desktop environment through Cnchi (we're Arch based) and so far it has been wonderful! However, for the past few days, our users have been reporting problems. I tested it in Virtualbox, and sadly I can testify that this is indeed an issue - no matter what login manager I use. Anyways, I'll get to the point. After one installs Deepin (installing all packages in the groups `deepin` and `deepin-extra` from Arch Linux) and boots up into their newly installed system for the first time in a VM, they get to the login screen. All's good so far, right? Well, there goes our happy little world. Upon entering in your user password and hitting Enter, it begins to log in and everything turns white. The screen goes completely white, and only the cursor is visible. No dock, no anything. Just a stark white screen and a cursor. Here's a screenshot:
![](https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/HmTmxHy.png)
Thanks to our amazing testers, we at Reborn have been working hard to figure out what is causing this, but to no avail. Hopefully, you can shed some light on the issue and people can give Deepin a go in a Vm once again!
NOTE: This is happening in ALL VMs of post-install Arch sytems. Antergos, us (Reborn), and even Arch itself. As such, this really is bigger than just one distro.
This describes what I experience (but I’m not in VirtualBox)
Okay, f you’re still up for it follow the steps in this thread:
installed gdm in virtualbox i noticed gnome-session and gnome-desktop are depency, so you have a mini gnome install on this point…Xfce seems to work , check your xorg configurations probably there is some answers?
You can find the august release over here:
https://github.com/endeavouros-team/ISO/releases/download/1-EndeavourOS-ISO-releases-archive/endeavouros-2019.08.17-x86_64.iso
Thanks, I will try tomorrow after work
If you’re patient you can also wait for friday, then the November ISO will be released.
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That might be plan c
Given that XFCE works I at least have a usable laptop
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Using the August release solved the problem.
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