[problem] [dell n4010] windows flicker when running 15.10 from USB

[bronze]

Hello,

I tried booting from USB. The system complains at startup about dbus exceptions and offers to transmit a bugreport…
When booting completes, few icons are not rendered. Some windows flicker and are not usable. Among the flickering windows is “administration - network”. I thus believe the laptop can’t configure the network and thus can’t transmit the bug report.

I am somewhat of a noob. Few questions:

• I haven’t tried starting a shell yet (I just realized), but could I get out of the gui and work the system from the command line? How to get out of the gui?
• can I configure the network from the command line? (I can connect the laptop to home ethernet)
• can I update the packages on the USB stick (image created from an ISO) with command line/apt-get, hoping that an update of a couple of packages will fix the DBUS/ubuiqity problems?

Eventually, the goal is to make a dual boot (win7 installed on laptop)

Kind regards

[wolfman]

Did you fully format the USB stick before creating your bootable media and have you tried downloading another ISO from a different server in case the one you have is corrupted?.

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