Wine (?) spoiling F12 boot

[Tom Horsley]

On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:10:51 +0000 (UTC)
BeartoothThpd30 wrote:

> "[r]egistering binary handler for Windows applications [OK]"
> 
>  	At that point the whole display flashes, several times
> per second for several seconds -- and then everything stops.

I'm pretty sure wine is merely the last thing that runs before it
tries to start the X server, and that flashing is s symptom of
the X server dying. Since you can ssh in, you might find hints
in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file about what it doesn't like.