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mm may be loading twm but suddenly a blank screen which is stucked appears fully black -- i have to forcefully shutdown to recover from it
Did you try clicking on it with your mouse? A menu should pop up if TWM is working. I forgot which button, I think it's the left one, but try all of them.
when left button clicked, a context menu appeared. Selected exit and get out of it.
The last fewlines of terminal are
using config directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
failed to load module "vboxvideo" (modules does not exist, 0)
failed to load module "fdev" (module does not exist , 0)
xinit:connection to X server lost
The login box arrived and after entering the password, it becomes stuck. Cannot recover by using menu as in twm. Also pressing Alt+Ctrl+f2 invokes the main linux interface(host ).
This arch is installed in virtualbox under debian lenny as host operating system
for getting arch linux I have to press the right control key. While running the gdm command, username and passwod is asked and the cursor changes to shape of small watch. Afterwards no progress. The background appears as black and the cursor is the small watch.
The control toggles between virtual machine(arch) and host (debian) by using the right control key. We should activate the ctrl+alt+f2 when the virtual machine gets control. Otherwise it will interpret it as the host key combination and it shuts down the debian system.
It means that after running gdm, I am not able to get the control for arch virtual machine. Therefore I have to get out from the situation by closing virtual machine from debian.
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