X crashes whole system
So, I have CrunchBang 11 and Windows 7 installed on to two entirely separate hard drives. Everything was working fine just like you'd expect. But today I started Windows, installed Skype and WhatPulse, used it for a while and then went back to Linux. I thought my CrunchBang installation was secure from Windows' evil claws since it is on another hard drive, but apparently... no.
Linux starts up fine. Then it attempts to start the X server and crashes hard. The terminal disappears. The background color changes to a slightly lighter black/blue. I cannot switch to another tty. In fact, I can't even toggle num or caps lock; everything is as dead as dead gets. The exact same happens in recovery mode. I have a terminal, everyting runs smooth, but as soon as I run startx the system crashes the same way. It does not seem to matter whether I run startx as root or from my own account via sudo. Before the X server actually tries to start a display I could see a quick flash of output to the console, so I recorded it with my phone... But there's nothing interesting there, just the usual startup/greeting stuff like version, build, host system, what log and config files are used... For example: Code:
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Dec 16 01:04:15 2014 Code:
startx > startx.log What could I have done when using Windows that damaged my X installation on another physical hard drive? Is there a way to get a useful error message? Is the trouble not worth it and it's quicker to just reinstall? Thanks a ton for your help! |
May be the Windows Graphics driver changed some video firmware
or your linux install has corrupted. Try using a Live cd to check. |
You can simply start X and see what is reported on the console (that is not startx, but /usr/bin/X, the binary)
also there can be a .xsession-error file (or something like this) in the home dir. |
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By any chance , did you add a second monitor to videocard and setup dual screen ?
Nvidia drivers save config in old linux fashion like /etc/X11/xorg.conf and who knows , after dist-upgrade something went wrong Is so , save xorg.conf to Desktop (any other place would be fine, just for backup sake) , then delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf and reboot |
I didn't set up dual screen or anything... but deleting xorg.conf worked! Incredible how that was able to crash everything so hard that it couldn't even log errors, I didn't think of something that simple. Thanks a ton, you saved me half a day of setup!
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