[CentOS] Centos 5 File Server X-Windows problem
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Sat Jan 19 10:14:39 UTC 2008
J wrote:
> I have a file server that runs a virtual machine that suddenly blanked
> its display. I can switch to <ctrl><alt><f1>, but switching back to
> <ctrl><alt><f7> just gives me a blank screen (no cursor). There are
> no entries in /var/log/messages or in /var/log/Xorg.0.log that might
> explain what happened. I was running IceWM, but I can't find any logs
> for it at all. ~/.xsession-errors shows nothing useful, either. (
> And was last updated 10 days ago. )
>
> Anyone have an idea what happened? ( Or how to figure out what
> happened? )
boot into run level 3.
startx > foo.log 2>&1
see if foo.log has anything interesting.
nuke your xorg config and run system-config-display
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