I hit accept in the upgrade packages dialogue window, locked my screen, and went to a meeting. When I came back after an hour, I couldn't get the screens to light up, and so eventually I rebooted the machine using the power button. It rebooted into text mode.
Upon checking, the packages hadn't upgraded. There was a new kernel in the list, so I thought "why not" and upgraded them all from the shell. Didn't help; still booting in text mode. I have kernels 3.13.0-44, 43, and 32 installed.
ctrl-alt-f7
just gives me the message that apache2 didn't start within 20 seconds.
who -r
tells me that I'm in run-level 2.
startx
isn't doing it - says xinit is unable to connect to the x xerver.
I commented out the GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
line in /etc/default/grub
to get the boot menu (holding down shift keys etc wasn't working). For a single boot in recovery mode on the newest kernel, I could boot to graphical login and desktop environment, but my dual screens had lost their configuration. I reconfigured and rebooted to see if it would stick, but now every boot menu option boots to text mode (including the recovery ones). Oddly, unless I'm booting in recovery mode, the normal boot isn't verbose - it just shows a black screen until I get the login prompt.
The graphics card is an ATI, configured using amdcccle
.
Any ideas on how I can get my graphical login and desktop back?
apt-get install --reinstall xorg
?Ctrl-Alt_F1
back to tty1,ctrl-c
to kill the xserver (dies with return value 2, which isn't promising). I'm starting to wonder if it's fglrx.sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx-amdcccle fglrx-updates fglrx-amdcccle-updates
and rebooted. Xserver still wouldn't display anything. (I reinstalled the drivers afterwards)/var/log/Xorg.1.log
, I seefglrx: No matching device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:0:0) found
, whereupon the backtrace log starts and ends with a seg fault andserver aborting
(which would explain it sitting around thinking for a while on boot, before presenting a text login screen). So I have a graphics driver problem, I take it?sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx fglrx_* fglrx-amdcccle* fglrx-dev*
andsudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg xorg; sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg; sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
. Still getting black screen onstartx
, and I get a tiny white window terminal onxinit
. So it's not the ATI driver (which remains uninstalled for the moment).