Re: Black screen before login

Yes, but nothing heappens. I did the steps:

Turn on the computer;
The graphical login prompt appears;
Press ctrl+alt+F1;
Command line login appears;
Log as root;
Did the comand;
The black screen appears;
Pressed ctrl+alt+F1, many times, nothing heappeans;
The graphical login prompt appears again;
Pressed ctrl+alt+F1, the command line appears, with the text of the Xorg.0.log printted in the screen.
Repeat the command, many times, same result.

Thanks, again.

Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: On Tue, 1 May 2007 08:37:33 -0300 (ART)
Renato Gondim Filho wrote:

I tried the command '/etc/init.d/gdm restart && tail
-f /var/log/Xorg.0.log', but it didn't work. The black screen
appeared instead of the output.

Did you try ctrl-alt-f1 to return to the console from which you issued
the command?

But looking at the Xorg.0.log, this
message appears many times:

(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or
directory)

It could be this?

Unfortunately, no. It is just a warning that the X server cannot use
ACPI for power management.


Thanks.

Liam O'Toole
escreveu: On Sun, 29 Apr 2007
11:15:47 -0300 (ART) Renato Gondim Filho wrote:

Sorry about my ignorance, some conventions I don't know well (yeat),
but "virtual console" means a command line in Terminal? If it´s
correct, I should do this:

tail -f /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Thanks.

What I am suggesting is that you try the following.

1. Switch to a virtual console using the key combination ctrl-alt-f1.
2. Login as root.
3. Issue the command '/etc/init.d/gdm restart && tail
-f /var/log/Xorg.0.log'. Here I assume that GDM is your display
manager. 4. The previous step will probably take you to the login
screen (even though the login prompt hasn't appeared). If so, repeat
step 1 to return to the virtual console. 5. Watch the progress of
output as you follow the log file. Is there a point at which the
output pauses for a long time? 6. You can toggle to the login screen
at any time using ctrl-alt-f7.

Good luck.



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