[ale] Debian Jessie upgrade startx dead

Boris Borisov bugyatl at gmail.com
Sun May 1 10:28:25 EDT 2016


Try some other driver. Vesa or fb.
On May 1, 2016 12:01 AM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

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