on Rawhide, screen goes black when X starts

Antonio M antonio.montagnani at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 21:04:32 UTC 2009


2009/7/10 Andre Robatino <andre at bwh.harvard.edu>:
> On 07/09/2009 01:56 PM, Andre Robatino wrote:
>> I have Rawhide running in VirtualBox.  For the last few weeks, at the
>> time X starts, the screen goes black, and I am unable to get a login
>> prompt, even in a VT.  This forces me to do updates each day in rescue
>> mode, hoping the problem would go away eventually.  I'm currently using
>> VB 3.0.0 but the problem started while using 2.2.4 (but the problem
>> started with some Rawhide update, not a VB one).  Currently everything
>> appears normal in Rawhide right up to the time X starts, and I can do an
>> ACPI shutdown from VB, so the OS is responsive, even though the screen
>> is black.  Any ideas what's wrong?
>
> If I set the default runlevel in /etc/inittab to 3, then I can boot
> Rawhide and end up with a normal text login prompt, and switch between
> VTs at will.  However, startx results in a permanent black screen again,
> with no change even if I try to switch to a VT.  The only indication of
> responsiveness is that the ACPI shutdown initiated from VB works
> normally.  At least this way I don't have to use rescue mode to apply
> updates.
>
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which is the driver that your system uses??
Did you apply any update to the graphical server recently???
Did you file a bug in bugzilla with all required informations about
hardware and Xorg.log files???

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