Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Willie <matthews.willie@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Willie <matthews.willie@×××××.com> wrote:
>>
>> Fist thing I do is start XDM, login with my normal users. I can't open
>> Session and Startup. Like I said before, I haven't been on it in XFCE for a
>> long time. When I do that the screen becomes blurry, no keyboard, mouse or
>> ssh access to the computer. I assume that the entire computer is frozen.
>> There is nothing in /var/log/messages but a jump in time from when it
>> crashed to when it started to boot again. Can't read dmesg, if I am not
>> mistaken that starts over when you restart the computer. Haven't tried to
>> read the Xorg.0.log or the .xsession-errors yet. I am going to try it again
>> now and see what it says about this.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
>> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 09:20:24 schrieb Willie:
>>> > Hi All,
>>> >
>>> > I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop
>>> > manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am
>>> > having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has
>>> > open
>>> > without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.
>>> >
>>> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> dmesg, Xorg.0.log, .xsession-errors... for starters.

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> The two files are empty after a reboot.

Any Xorg.*.log file would help.

dmesg's prior output should find its way into /var/log/messages


In any case, try removing xdm from your default runlevel, and run
startx and your X session manually?

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