[Tfug] troubleshooting xorg

[Eric M. Gearhart]

----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "christopher floess" <skeptikos at gmail.com> 

>here's an interesting situation with which I could use some help: xorg 
>has stopped working. I type startx and I get a black screen and that's 
>it. It's really weird because it's not like the black screen you get 
>when your monitor turns off, it looks like it's painted black, like 
>there's something there. Unfortunately there is no mouse cursor and no 
>window manager. 


If I remember right X leaves a log file in /var/log/X.0.log or something along those lines - if you can't find the log file 

find / -name X | grep log 

should reveal it. The "Es" (errors) in the X log file should be of some help, hopefully... 

-- 
Eric 
http://nixwizard.net 

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