guerlando
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Forever blinking "-" after boot

Tue Mar 15, 2016 12:44 am

I've had this problem with one of my rpi's, I formated the SD card and installed raspibian again. Now, the problem is in the other one. After the boot, the graphical enrivonment won't open, I can only see a - character blinking on the black screen, and nothing more happens. However, I can still SSH from my other devices. The strange thing is that control alt F1-F7 changes to new terminals for less than a second and start the black blinking - again. In one of the control alt F-something I can see the boot process and the

pi@raspberrypi:~$

ready for me to type something, but the black screen appear in less than a second in front of it

DirkS
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Location: Essex, UK

Re: Forever blinking "-" after boot

Tue Mar 15, 2016 11:00 am

So using the same SD card works in one Pi and fails in another?

Is the red power led on at all times?

guerlando
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Joined: Tue Mar 15, 2016 12:38 am

Re: Forever blinking "-" after boot

Wed Mar 16, 2016 2:18 am

DirkS wrote:So using the same SD card works in one Pi and fails in another?

Is the red power led on at all times?

changed the SD to another raspberry pi, it booted and I could use the terminal. Then, placed the SD into my raspberry pi again, and it booted normally without errors, but when I typed startx, I got:

(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) Could not write pid to lock file in /tmp/.tx0-lock
(EE)
(EE)
Please consult The X.Org Foundation support at ....
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: connection refused
xinit: server error

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