[CentOS] Centos 5 File Server X-Windows problem

Sat Jan 19 10:14:39 UTC 2008
Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com>

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