Andrew Gaydenko writes: > Last week or two (I mostly use Gnome and can not say more precisely) > after KDE4 starting session apps starts also, as well as bg and panels. > But then I get black screen (during this KDE4 start process), and > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does nothing. The only way I have in hand to continue > is to use SysRq kernel hacking (s, u, b). > > Have you an idea how to catch the halt reason?
Alt-SysRq-R will allow you to switch to a text console with Ctrl-Alt-Fn. Wonko