[ale] Debian Jessie upgrade startx dead

[Alex Carver]

Yep, vesa works thankfully.  It's strange because during the original
install of wheezy it tried to use vesa and failed so I switched to the
trident driver since the chip is a trident.  Oh well, as long as it
works I'm happy.

On 2016-05-01 07:28, Boris Borisov wrote:
> Try some other driver. Vesa or fb.
> 
> On May 1, 2016 12:01 AM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net 
> <mailto:agcarver%2Bale 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%2Bale at acarver.net>
>      >> <mailto:agcarver+ale at acarver.net <mailto:agcarver%2Bale 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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