[dapper] x-windows broken again

[James Gray]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 03:14, fmccormick at videotron.ca wrote:
> Sorry but this stupid web interface my ISP provides is brain-dead! Have
> to top post.I already have that symlink in place from the last time X
> broke. This time it was after a GDM and Kernel update...as I said no
> error messages...just a cli. 

If there was a kernel update, are you using ATi or nVidia's binary drivers?  
If so you may need to recompile the kernel module associated with them.  I 
had this problem recently in Breezy on my ATi lappy AND my AMD64 nVidia 
desktop machine.

Kinda throws you when you go off to make a coffee, come back and instead of 
the login screen, you've got a command line :P

BTW - unless X is *really* broken, you should have /something/ logged 
to /var/log/Xorg.log.0.  If not, try creating a extra entry (with sudo) 
in /etc/syslog.conf to log EVERYTHING (warning - this will generate a LOT 
of info):

# Log *everything* - for debugging weird errors
*.*                             /var/log/everything.log

then, "sudo /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart".

Now try and restart GDM: "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart".  If it doesn't come 
up, you should get something useful in /var/log/everything.log and 
possibly /var/log/Xorg.log.0.  You may even get some messages dumped to the 
console too.

After the debugging is finished, you might want to change that syslog.conf 
line to this instead:

# Log *everything* to tty12
*.*                             /dev/tty12

...now if you want a screenful of the most recent messages, "CTL+ALT+F12" 
and voila!  Handy for a lot things :)  (ALT+F7 to get back to X, or 
ALT+F[1-6] for the terminal sessions)

HTH,

James
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