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blank screen on start up

Hi everyone,

after recent upgrade from wheezy to jessie, i'm unable to start xserver everuthing runs as terminal how to solve this, any help would be great

i've tried

PHP Code:




Xorg -configure

but it fails to configure

i'm new bee so keep ot easy to me :D thanks

Type

Code:

$ startx

in a terminal and you should get some error information as to why the Xserver doesn't start.

Play Bonny!

:hattip:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soadyheid (Post 5264904)

Type

Code:

$ startx

in a terminal and you should get some error information as to why the Xserver doesn't start.

Play Bonny!

:hattip:

Yup i like to add little more details,

i've 2 kernel installed,

1)Kernal 3.16.6-pae - installed after upgration to jessie
2)kernel 3.2.63-pae - already installed by wheezy

so when i use kernel 3.16.5, xserver shows following error while startx,it's not full error but few last part of it.

Code:

modprobe: error:.../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:816 kmod_module_insert_module(1) couid not find module by name='nvidia_currunt'



modprobe: error: could not insert 'nvdia_currunt'



fatal server error: (EE) no screens found(EE)



please consult the X.org foundation support



please chek the log file etc etc......



server teriminated with error (1).closing log file



xinit: giving up

xinit: unable to connect to x server: connection refused

xinit: server error

i've to reboot pc to post this with kernel 3.2.63......so the log file is different and i'll try to post full error message as soon as possible.

thanks for the responce

Check for the missing module.

Quote:

modprobe: error: could not insert 'nvdia_currunt'

(That looks like a typo.)

Quote:

Originally Posted by fatmac (Post 5266601)

Check for the missing module.

(That looks like a typo.)

idk how to do that :( how to do it?

find / -type f -exec grep nvidia_currunt /dev/null {} \; 2>/dev/null

drink some tea...

check the result

It is entirely possable that having 2 kernels installed on the same machine is what is causing you gyp. Make sure that your bootloader is only loading one when you power up.

How exactly did you install the NVIDIA drivers?
In you situation I would be tempted to press Ctrl+Alt+F2*, log in as root and install nvidia-dkms then reboot**.

*Or F1 or any other F below 7, if you like, but I prefer 2 in case they go the Fedora route of putting X on the first tty.

**not strictly necessary but it will both stop any processes which may cause issues and let you know whether the fix will persist after a reboot.

Quote:

Originally Posted by LFS-Fighter (Post 5266715)

find / -type f -exec grep nvidia_currunt /dev/null {} \; 2>/dev/null

drink some tea...

check the result

thanks for the tea :) i had it and believe me it was awesome :D.

i was googling and found few solution, i found linux-header for kernel 3.16 was missing hence i intalled it via synaptic and on next reboot everything is running fine now.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarrenDrapkin (Post 5266747)

It is entirely possable that having 2 kernels installed on the same machine is what is causing you gyp. Make sure that your bootloader is only loading one when you power up.

yeah bootloader is loading one kernel at a time, privious it was 3.2.xxx and now it's 3.16.xxx. kernel headers was missing for 3.16.xxx hence i installed it and now everything is fine.

thanks for the responce :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by 273 (Post 5266934)

actually i performed only upgrade via terminal, and migrated from wheezy to jessie, and everything is automatic i did nothing manually, installed nvidia driver now is 340.xxx.

i tried to use "nouveau" driver and logged in via lightdm or gnome classic, but no success, hence i googled and read some ask ubuntu forums, and few debian forums,and after few terminal commands found kernel headers missing so i installed it and everything is running fine now.

yup ctrl+alt+F1 to F7 i tried them and for debian jessie i found ctrl+alt+F7 working. now i can login and play games and do my work.

thank youvery much for your responce. :)