The KDE Live Preview CD won't start the desktop on my Dell Dimension E520. The system is completely unresponsive and the display is blank. I can boot to init level 3, but staring X results in a complete freeze.
The CD boots up normally on my Vaio laptop.
How can I obtain diagnostic information?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443240
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On 4/22/08, Garry T. Williams gtwilliams@gmail.com wrote:
The KDE Live Preview CD won't start the desktop on my Dell Dimension E520. The system is completely unresponsive and the display is blank. I can boot to init level 3, but staring X results in a complete freeze.
The CD boots up normally on my Vaio laptop.
How can I obtain diagnostic information?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443240
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Garry T. Williams wrote:
The KDE Live Preview CD won't start the desktop on my Dell Dimension E520. The system is completely unresponsive and the display is blank. I can boot to init level 3, but staring X results in a complete freeze.
The CD boots up normally on my Vaio laptop.
How can I obtain diagnostic information?
The best info you can get is gathered from /var/log/Xorg.0.log after you try starting x, and from terminal output. Use startx from runlevel 3 to gather this:
startx &> startx-output.txt
Get the logs, and post them as well. You can also get the output of KDM when trying to start it manually from the terminal (it may be that X works fine, KDM doesn't).
Andrew Farris wrote:
Garry T. Williams wrote:
The KDE Live Preview CD won't start the desktop on my Dell Dimension E520. The system is completely unresponsive and the display is blank. I can boot to init level 3, but staring X results in a complete freeze.
The CD boots up normally on my Vaio laptop.
How can I obtain diagnostic information?
The best info you can get is gathered from /var/log/Xorg.0.log after you try starting x, and from terminal output. Use startx from runlevel 3 to gather this:
startx &> startx-output.txt
Get the logs, and post them as well. You can also get the output of KDM when trying to start it manually from the terminal (it may be that X works fine, KDM doesn't).
Also note that ctrl-alt-backspace should kill your active X session. That is very useful for debugging when you use startx and get nothing but a blank, because it should let you kill it and get back to the text files (unless your virtual terminals are corrupted, so if you're using vga high res terminals you may want to turn that off to debug this as well, don't pass any vga= kernel parameters at boot).
On Monday 21 April 2008 21:33:05 Andrew Farris wrote:
Garry T. Williams wrote:
The KDE Live Preview CD won't start the desktop on my Dell Dimension E520. The system is completely unresponsive and the display is blank. I can boot to init level 3, but staring X results in a complete freeze.
The CD boots up normally on my Vaio laptop.
How can I obtain diagnostic information?
The best info you can get is gathered from /var/log/Xorg.0.log after you try starting x, and from terminal output. Use startx from runlevel 3 to gather this:
startx &> startx-output.txt
Get the logs, and post them as well. You can also get the output of KDM when trying to start it manually from the terminal (it may be that X works fine, KDM doesn't).
Unfortunately, the log file is empty. I mounted one of my disk drives to record the log before running the startx command from the command line. It's empty.
The system just "locks up" after typing startx. Nothing is responsive. No keyboard input; no network.