On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:02:08 -0500, Petrus Validus wrote: >> Logging out to get to a login screen didn't work either. Now all >> ctl-alt- f* keys give me a screen with no sognal. Had to hard-reset to >> reboot. Now using a Debian stable instead of testing, just to get this >> message out. > > I had something similar to me happen when I tried out Testing two months > ago. Switching from GNOME (on tty7) to tty2 and then back to tt7 again > gave me the same blank screen with no signal problem. I found by > switching around to different ttys that my usual F7 session had > mysteriously moved to tty8. > Yeah. My usual F7 session showed up on F8, too. It just seemed to allocate different F keys from before -- but I didn't consider this to be significant, since as far as I know, it doesn't really matter which F key goes with which session when multiple sessions are around.
> I went back to using Stable on this machine. Another thread on this list with the word 'gdm' in it suggests that the problem may be bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422735 where starting gdm is prevented by a script that uses the wrong file name to access the gdm program. Apparently fixed in gdm 2.20.10-2, which hadn't made it into testing last time I upgraded. So I guess it's time to upgrade and report back. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ie3t80$6g...@dough.gmane.org
