I get an 'updates available' notice and after I effect the update in update station it apparently fails to update. It goes through the update process and I am asked to reboot.

Shortly after reboot the notice arrives again.

This laptop has an integrated Intel GM965/GL960....very basic...selected vesa on install

When I get to 'lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf' I can see that "Tidepool Sunset" is set as the background but it just doesn't show......we only get a black, colourless background....and the login bracket.

When I get to the 'login' window I get a black wallpaper........and the login box, of course, and everything works ok. On the first 'login' occasion after install, a wallpaper and the login box was displayed .......subsequent to that only a black background/wallpaper is apparent. I think a wallpaper...

Have installed 19.04 to a SSD on my laptop and it works very nicely.........for a BSD the boot times are fast, a welcome surprise.

......many thanks!

.....thinking about it, there is a point where there is a long delay which suggests a failure but after a time it carries on.....perhaps you need to allow it more time.

That sounds big enough.......Is GhostBSD the only item on the disk?

If it is, my next step would be to download a fresh iso, check the integrity of the new iso and if clean, install it again.

Otherwise, there is no reason for the result you get.

That's always disappointing isn't it...........check the size of the target drive, GhostBSD is pretty big and it sounds like it doesn't finish loading?

I have been able to install recent release to a 8GB usb stick.

......now I have nothing to grumble about!

RC4 seems to go well........on first boot-up the login screen had the usual background but subsequent boots show a black background.....otherwise all goes efficiently.