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