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I installed today my Raspberry again. And after installing updates and normal packages like vim I rebooted it. Now it boots, you see all the processes running (normal boot procedure) but then it's stuck. After that it never shows the desktop like it should, there is just a blinking underscore no CLI or something. I saw this issue and therefore I'll try not to run it for a few days but I'm wondering if anyone else knows something about this issue.

Edit:

I was installing updates and vim when I tried open webpages in the browser. It always closed the browser window as I opened websites. So I thought I might just reboot.

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What might have happen to you is that you have actually ran out of disk space. When you install Raspbian by just copying the image onto the SD card, it usually keeps the original partition size which is more like 2 GiB than 32 GiB of your card. Then, if not enough space is available, X (graphical UI) won't boot. Maybe you are looking at a terminal that failed to boot graphically.

If you are still able to log into a text terminal, by pressing Ctrl-Alt-1 for example, try checking the output of df -h. It should show a partition mounted at /, and let's hope the free space is in megabytes or gigabytes rather than 0 or bytes.

If this is your problem (free space is 0 or close), what you need to do is called expand rootfs to fill the whole SD card. Running

sudo raspi-config

should show you an option to do so.

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