Thank you all for the advice regarding the Xserver problems. I am still not sure what happened here but following your advice and with some other ideas this worked.
Disable nouveau when booting press e add nouveau.modeset=0 press F10. This boots and allows me to log in. ps -A | grep shows that startx, xinit and Xorg are not running so clearly a step in the right direction. startx fails with no screens found and that it is using /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Renaming /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak and trying again also fails with no screens found but now reports that it is using /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d A quick look in there shows a file 20-nouveau.conf which identifies the video card as Nvidia and uses the nouveau driver. Renaming that to 20-nouveau.conf.bak and restarting the system brings everything up normally. I have no idea what happened, what was wrong with these files or why renaming them worked. In fact not even sure what video drivers I am running right now. Much still to investigate. Thanks for the suggestions. Stripes On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 at 01:41, Timothy Rice <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stripes, > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 08:49:48AM +0100, 'stripes theotoky' via mlug-au > wrote: > > Following the latest update on my Devuan box I have lost the Xserver. > > <snip> > > If you haven't checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log yet, you might want to check it > out. > > What is your usual method of starting X? Eg do you rely on a login manager > such as slim, or do you set up an ~/.xinitrc and run startx? What's your > WM/DE? > > If you've been relying on a login manager and/or a fullblown desktop > environment, you might find it easier to troubleshoot if you switch to the > startx method and launch a simple WM like openbox. How to do that is > covered at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit > > > ~ Tim > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mlug-au" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mlug-au. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Stripes Theotoky -37 .713869 145.050562
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