BeagleBone Black Rev C gets stuck on the BBB logo when start

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BeagleBone Black Rev C gets stuck on the BBB logo when start

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Hey Guys, how are you doing?
I just bought this BBB rev C from AdaFruit and when I tried to boot it (using the internal memory and the already installed debian) It gets stuck on the BeagleBone logo and never goes to the desktop. I have no idea why this is happening.

Can you please help me out?

Thanks in advance!

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Re: BeagleBone Black Rev C gets stuck on the BBB logo when s

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Have you got anything plugged in to the BBB (keyboard, mouse, other things)? Does it boot when you remove everything?

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I am a real newbie to the Linux world. When I first booted my bbb I got the logo and a black screen. It took a while to figure out that all I needed to do was right click.

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So, i pressed the right mouse button and it is working. I was really surprised to not see any icons on the desktop. Is that correct? there are no icons on anything besides the beaglebone logo?

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The "no icons" thing is usually a sign that you've launched the desktop environment as root instead of a regular user.

The Linux desktop usually takes its information from a folder named 'Desktop' in the user's home directory. All the icons on the desktop are created by text files in that directory with the .desktop extension. The root user's home directory is traditionally as empty as it can reasonably be.

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I understand, so how can I log in as not the root?

thanks!

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That depends heavily on the specific version of Linux you're using.

Let's double-check the assumption that you are getting a root login before chasing off after other ideas though. Open a terminal window and enter the command:

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whoami
that will return the username of the account currently running that terminal.

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It just says "debian"
and there is a blue led blinking all the time on the BBB

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The blue LED blinking is normal. That's the BBB's way of letting you know it's running.

If `whoami` shows 'debian', that must be a default user account. Enter the command:

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ls -l ~
and see if there's an item named 'Desktop' in the list. If so, enter the command:

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ls -l ~/Desktop
to see what's in that directory. Any clickable icons that show up on the desktop would come from files whose names end in '.desktop'.

If there aren't any files of that kind, the desktop will be blank.

It sounds like the BBB works, and this is primarily a hardware support forum. For more information on how to use Debian, check the official documentation: https://www.debian.org/doc/

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It is showing 0 icons. So, should I be seeing icons? is that normal?

Also, how do I change users? I would like to login as root

thank you

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If there are no .desktop files in the Desktop folder, you won't see any icons on the screen. That's normal.

To change to root, the easiest way is to enter `sudo su -` on the command line.

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