I have an Acer Aspire One netbook with an Intel Atom CPU and 1GB of RAM. I've been using Ubuntu and a few other distros on it with no problem for two years now.
I have used both Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Xubuntu 14.04, 14.10, 15.04 and 15.10 flawlessly, with casual distro changes (Arch Linux, openSUSE, Linux Mint, elementaryOS, Debian). No problems at all. But today I decided to move back to Xubuntu, so I grabbed the "mini" installation ISO from ubuntu.com, wiped out the Debian Jessie partition and installed the system there. After the installation was completed, I installed the "xubuntu-core" metapackage and rebooted.
But the system got to a "Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes." message and sits there, with a blinking cursor. I could access other TTYs by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Fx and even startxfce4 (as root), but that issue was really annoying me. So I downloaded a Lubuntu 16.04 ISO from lubuntu.net and went to install it. As I didn't have a DVD or USB drive available, I put it in a backup partition and booted the Lubuntu installation media with GRUB2, using
set root=(hd0,msdos4)
loopback loop /lubuntu-16.04-desktop-i386.iso
linux (loop)/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/lubuntu-16.04-desktop-i386.iso config noprompt noeject
initrd (loop)/casper/initrd.lz
boot
But it also got stuck in the exact same message. The difference is that now I can't change TTY, but I think it's because it's a live media. Some people suggested it may be a graphics driver problem, but I'm not sure. I also saw a similar problem with some Mageia folks.
Can someone help me?