Boots then displays nothing

[agent_orange]

Apologies if already posted, but Im in Siberia & therefore using my mobile.


Had been using my Pandora fine up until now. However every time it tries to boot, once the Angstrom splash has gone, I get a black screen. Presumably it is at the login screen. The green light is on and if a insert an SD card in, the respective green lights flashes. All suggesting that the Pandora is fine. I wonder if this was caused by me starting up with the screen/lid closed.


So far I have tried reseting by pushing the Pandora button & flicking the power switch. Also pulled the battery out, and also tried running without the battery - but no cigar It seems stuck on the previous session.

 

[Bosbeetle]

If you didnt install any of the Hotfixes you might want to try turning up the brightness. Its a bug that was fixed in the first hotfix. I highly recommend installing HF4 anyway.

 

[agent_orange]

Forgot to mention that HF4 is installed. I read about that bug before so tried turning up the brightness. Still no luck unless im not doing the brightness correctly

 

[EvilDragon]

Hm, seems like something is broken in login... you could either try booting without an SD Card (it might hang if the SD Card has some errors) or reflash the unit.

 

[tsh]

I had something similar. I didn't manage to track down the problem, but as I remember it was fixed by replacing /etc from my working OS (for me it was a copy of the OS on SD that failed)

 

[agent_orange]

Also forgot to add that I tried with the SD cards out, but did not anticipate this would make much difference as my cards do not contain anything relating to the O/S.


I managed to resolve the problem in the end. *Presumably* I logged in blind, then put the Pandora into power save (green light dimmed) then fired it up. In the past I have found when I do this I have to press a button or shake a nub to complete the procedure - not sure if this is normal. Anyway I repeated this and bingo got my display back YAY!