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Author: | fiete [ Tue Sep 14, 2010 3:30 am ] |
Post subject: | How to sort out cause of failure: GDM? Xserver? Nvidia? |
Hi all, after many, many years of proper function of Knoppmyth R5A16 with MX4000 video card the GUI and desktop have gone. Its a combined backend/frontend machine in the living room Reason: full disk due to logfiles after so many years. I am using the NVIDIA driver. Symptoms: black screen after initialization of GDM/Xserver I can switch to console using ALT-X I can access the system using ssh -XL en start a frontend remotely Ik can access the backend with a remote frontend What is the best strategy to search and repair? |
Author: | fiete [ Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:18 am ] |
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I was lucky! I connected to the crashed box using ssh -Xl. Next I started nvidia-settings, doing nothing except closing the application without modifying anything. After the next reboot of the crashed system I had a desktop and could do some tweaking using nvidia-settings. Case closed. |
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