[xubuntu-users] How to diagnose loss of X/GUI after latest kernel upgrade in 8.10?

[Nils Kassube]

Chris G wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 07:41:05PM +0200, Steve Dodier wrote:
> >    Please provide us ~/.xsession-errors, there should be clues
> > there. It is very likely a missing driver problem, though,
> > especially if you used to have a proprietary driver. Type lspci |
> > grep VGA to get your GPU's name.
>
> There's no .xsession-errors, it hasn't got that far.  Also, as I
> reported, there don't seem to be any problems in /var/Xorg.0.log.

Did you check the time stamp of /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Maybe it is from 
the last successful start and now it doesn't even get far enough to 
write a log file.


Nils