Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: Willie <matthews.willie@×××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help!
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:31:08
Message-Id: 2962249.O7cXYtxaP0@energy
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help! by Willie
1 Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 11:07:55 schrieb Willie:
2 > Fist thing I do is start XDM, login with my normal users. I can't open
3 > Session and Startup. Like I said before, I haven't been on it in XFCE for a
4 > long time. When I do that the screen becomes blurry, no keyboard, mouse or
5 > ssh access to the computer. I assume that the entire computer is frozen.
6 > There is nothing in /var/log/messages but a jump in time from when it
7 > crashed to when it started to boot again. Can't read dmesg, if I am not
8 > mistaken that starts over when you restart the computer. Haven't tried to
9 > read the Xorg.0.log or the .xsession-errors yet. I am going to try it again
10 > now and see what it says about this.
11
12 protipp: in local.start:
13 dmesg >> /dmesg.out
14
15 >
16 > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann <
17 >
18 > volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
19 > > Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 09:20:24 schrieb Willie:
20 > > > Hi All,
21 > > >
22 > > > I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop
23 > > > manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am
24 > > > having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has
25 > >
26 > > open
27 > >
28 > > > without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC.
29 > > >
30 > > > Any help is greatly appreciated.
31 > >
32 > > dmesg, Xorg.0.log, .xsession-errors... for starters.
33 > > --
34 > > #163933
35 --
36 #163933

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Re: [gentoo-user] Need Help! Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>