<p dir="ltr">Try some other driver. Vesa or fb.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 1, 2016 12:01 AM, "Alex Carver" <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A little extra info, I fired up top in a remote shell and tried to run<br>
startx on the console. I saw startx fire up followed by xinit and then,<br>
after some delay, both went away.<br>
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On 2016-04-30 20:07, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
> Runlevel is 2 so no login managers are running.<br>
><br>
> No display managers are installed either (dpkg comes up blank)<br>
><br>
> The log doesn't scream anything obvious to me but this is what I get<br>
> (currently the screen is blank as of posting this log file, but Xorg is<br>
> no longer listed in the process list. In fact I think I caught it dying<br>
> (I thought I spotted a Z-zombie next to it in top).<br>
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> On 2016-04-30 19:58, Dustin Strickland wrote:<br>
>> Just some wild guesses, but maybe check your runlevel. Perhaps run a `dpkg -l<br>
>> *dm` to see if perhaps the upgrade installed a display manager for some reason.<br>
>> Do you have anything relevant in your Xorg logs?<br>
>><br>
>> On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Alex Carver <<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a><br>
>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:agcarver%2Bale@acarver.net">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Already did that, didn't work.<br>
>><br>
>> On 2016-04-30 18:20, DJ-Pfulio wrote:<br>
>> > Create a new account and try that. That will rule out userid-specific config<br>
>> > issues.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > On 04/30/2016 08:40 PM, Alex Carver wrote:<br>
>> >> I just upgraded a laptop from Wheezy to Jessie. Under Wheezy everything<br>
>> >> was fine, I could log in then run startx to bring up the desktop<br>
>> >> (fluxbox). Under Jessie I can't get anything to come up, I just get a<br>
>> >> black screen. Even the virtual terminals are dead (can't Ctrl-Alt-Fn or<br>
>> >> crash out with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace).<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Nothing seems out of the ordinary, I don't see any obvious error<br>
>> >> messages during the startup process.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> I'd love suggestions about other places to look for any other issues.<br>
>> >> Command line is working, video looks normal there. I don't think any<br>
>> >> configurations changed but I do have a backup of /etc to compare against<br>
>> >> but a quick glance says no changes.<br>
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