On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Andre Robatino wrote:
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On 07/10/2009 05:04 PM, Antonio M wrote:
> 2009/7/10 Andre Robatino <andre(a)bwh.harvard.edu>:
>> On 07/09/2009 01:56 PM, Andre Robatino wrote:
>>> I have Rawhide running in VirtualBox. For the last few weeks, at the
>>> time X starts, the screen goes black, and I am unable to get a login
>>> prompt, even in a VT. This forces me to do updates each day in rescue
>>> mode, hoping the problem would go away eventually. I'm currently using
>>> VB 3.0.0 but the problem started while using 2.2.4 (but the problem
>>> started with some Rawhide update, not a VB one). Currently everything
>>> appears normal in Rawhide right up to the time X starts, and I can do an
>>> ACPI shutdown from VB, so the OS is responsive, even though the screen
>>> is black. Any ideas what's wrong?
>> If I set the default runlevel in /etc/inittab to 3, then I can boot
>> Rawhide and end up with a normal text login prompt, and switch between
>> VTs at will. However, startx results in a permanent black screen again,
>> with no change even if I try to switch to a VT. The only indication of
>> responsiveness is that the ACPI shutdown initiated from VB works
>> normally. At least this way I don't have to use rescue mode to apply
>> updates.
>>
I am not sure if it is relevant or not but I am having this exact same
problem with F11 on my Dell inspiron 2650 laptop. The last time it worked,
was during F11 devel. I have to boot it with pci=noacpi to get it to
work at all.
Regards,
Tom