I just installed sarge 3.1 need some quick help
I installed debian 3.1 sarge on a Compaq evo D510.
I installed via netinstall and everything went smooth as butter. I had a mirror real close to my location and it was very speedy... I had a problem last night as I was exiting KDE and Gnome. I would log out of them and it would beep but not go back to the graphical greeter. The screen would go black. I would go to another terminal and reboot to get back to the greeter. How do I find the problem? Where would the log file be? I have been using debian based distros for a while and was confused not to find a xorg.conf today while trying to check my x settings. I ran xf86config to see if doing the setting manually would fix the problem and it didn't. Regards, Blair |
Sarge uses Xfree86, not xorg, so the config file you're looking for would be /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 instead of /etc/X11/xorg.conf
SID uses xorg, and probably ETCH too, but Sarge is still on the older XFree86. The logfile you're looking for would be /var/log/XFree86.0.log You probably don't need to go all the way to a reboot to recover either. Pop on over to a different virtual terminal and, as root, "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" then "/etc/init.d/gdm start". Next time you might also try the Xwindows escape CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE while stuck in your black screen, before advancing to the gdm stop, or a reboot. I don't know what your specific problem might be, but the logfile would of course be your first place to start looking. |
Thank you for the quick reply.
I will check the log file. I tried ctrl+alt+bkspc last night and the screen remained black. I will try gdm stop. Hopefully an easy fix. Regards, Blair |
Hi DeadPenguing :)
Perhaps it's the problem with arts daemon, perhaps it's not, check out this post http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=393664 |
I just ran across that post this morning.
Thanks. I will try it tonight when I get home. Regards, Blair |
Do apt-get install kdm gdm as this will give you the option to end the user session, reboot or shutdown.
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I already have the option to log off reboot or shutdown, it just crashes logging off of kde/gnome.
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Check /var/log/XFree86.0.log for the error.
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I ended up copying a XF86Config-4 file from a live cd(Kanotix) and used it to fix my broken xfree.
It worked. Thanks for the help. Regards, Blair |
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