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I just finished upgrading to Jessie from Wheezy, and after a reboot, my system ran grub, goes through some checks and stuff after loading the kernel. It then says:

Welcome Debian 8 servername Tty1 Login:

But the screen goes black before I can do anything. I can enter recovery mode, and have been trying some things.

  1. I ran apt-get update and upgrade and it shows no new downloads

  2. I have tried running grub with nomodeset

  3. Drivers installed on my GPU are gflrx

In journalctl -xb I see this error:

Failed at step EXEC spawning /bin/plymouth

This guide says to modify my fstab file, but I only have three devices in there: /, usr, and swap. None of those correspond to a CD drive.

I can also run as sysvinit which looks like it's running fine, then gets to apache2 and the screen goes black.

What should I do?

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Not quite a solution, but temporary workaround which enabled me to reach the login screen:

  • in GRUB, open command line and check which modules are loaded with lsmod
  • load the normal module (strangely enough, for me it worked after i had tried to load with both insmod (hd0,5)/boot/grub/normal.mod and insmod normal)
  • return to normal grub module with normal and select the OS you wish to load
  • overwrite GRUB settings

Haven't managed to locate the root cause of this issue though but it vaguely hints that something messes up GRUB.

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