On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Willie <matthews.wil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Willie <matthews.wil...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Fist thing I do is start XDM, login with my normal users. I can't open >> Session and Startup. Like I said before, I haven't been on it in XFCE for a >> long time. When I do that the screen becomes blurry, no keyboard, mouse or >> ssh access to the computer. I assume that the entire computer is frozen. >> There is nothing in /var/log/messages but a jump in time from when it >> crashed to when it started to boot again. Can't read dmesg, if I am not >> mistaken that starts over when you restart the computer. Haven't tried to >> read the Xorg.0.log or the .xsession-errors yet. I am going to try it again >> now and see what it says about this. >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012, 09:20:24 schrieb Willie: >>> > Hi All, >>> > >>> > I have been running a gentoo box for quite some time without a desktop >>> > manager. Did a lot of upgrading in between time also. The problem I am >>> > having is when I login I can't open any Windows. The only one that has >>> > open >>> > without crashing the entire computer that I know of is VLC. >>> > >>> > Any help is greatly appreciated. >>> >>> dmesg, Xorg.0.log, .xsession-errors... for starters.
[snip] > The two files are empty after a reboot. Any Xorg.*.log file would help. dmesg's prior output should find its way into /var/log/messages In any case, try removing xdm from your default runlevel, and run startx and your X session manually? -- :wq
