Re: [CentOS] suddenly X gives black screen with small clock cursor

From: Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us

I rebooted a while ago (and in between the down and up, I installed Fedora 20 Beta on a USB hard drive, making sure it wouldn't mess with my Centos system). The install went fine, but afterwards, when I reboot Centos, it comes up with a black screen and a clock as the mouse cursor (small clock).

chmod a+rw /dev/null     chmod a+rw /dev/urandom     chmod a+rw /dev/zero     chmod a+rw /dev/full     chmod a+rw /dev/random

Can anyone suggest an accurate way to have the system fix all the permissions in /dev? some arcane options on rpm, perhaps?

Nothing at all in the logs...? Global check: rpm -qVa Maybe check udev confs...?

JD