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Newbie here. For education purposes I needed to download the OVA file of Sans Sift workstation to run on my VMware workstation 16 pro. It downloaded but never really open up. It ended up with a black screen with a blinking cursor. Ran it again and it is the same again. Uninstall and install again same outcome. Anyone encountered something like this?

Thanks

Jamal2415
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You may still be able to login - press Alt + F2 (or maybe F1). Login at the prompts and then type the command startx

This should hopefully give you the gui.

Peter Csala
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Just as above, I was able to get the login screen to show up by pressing alt f1, altf2 then alt f1 again, so i don't know which one really worked. Anyway once I logged in I was able to use apt-get update and then i used apt-get dist-upgrade, and once that was complete I restarted the VM and the login screen appeared and once logged in, the Ubuntu GUI was there and it has been working ever since.

WandaD
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