Blank screen after entering startx upgrade#
Blank screen after entering startx windows 8.1#

xinit /usr/bin/icewm (depending on which WMs you've got installed and where they're located). Try starting X with xinit - this usually gives you a terminal-window (xterm) on a 'dotted' desktop, but may start a WM too. X with the startx command Otherwise, F7 will just show a blank screen. Try starting X with xinit - this usually gives you a terminal-window (xterm) on a 'dotted' desktop, but may start a WM too. Try running ps to see what WM you're running. Arguments immediately after the startx command are used to start a client in the.

The root cause appears to be an issue with Potentially Unwanted Programs ('PUP') which. Try running ps to see what WM youre running. This is also occurring on Windows 7 and Windows 8 devices, but less frequently.

Blank screen after entering startx windows 8.1#

The graphics card is an ATI, configured using amdcccle. Black Screen After Entering System Password.Dell system users are reporting seeing a black screen or black screen with a moving cursor when logging into their Windows 8.1 device. Oddly, unless I'm booting in recovery mode, the normal boot isn't verbose - it just shows a black screen until I get the login prompt. I reconfigured and rebooted to see if it would stick, but now every boot menu option boots to text mode (including the recovery ones). For a single boot in recovery mode on the newest kernel, I could boot to graphical login and desktop environment, but my dual screens had lost their configuration. Package: gdm3 Version: 3.4.1-2 Severity: important After updating from Squeeze to Wheezy, the gdm login screen never appears on boot, instead, it ends up in a blank screen with the cursor spinning. I commented out the GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 line in /etc/default/grub to get the boot menu (holding down shift keys etc wasn't working). Startx isn't doing it - says xinit is unable to connect to the x xerver. I have kernels 3.13.0-44, 43, and 32 installed.Ĭtrl-alt-f7 just gives me the message that apache2 didn't start within 20 seconds. There was a new kernel in the list, so I thought 'why not' and upgraded them all from the shell. Upon checking, the packages hadn't upgraded. When I came back after an hour, I couldn't get the screens to light up, and so eventually I rebooted the machine using the power button. In the absence of /.xinitrc, it defaults to the global file /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, which defaults to starting a basic environment with the Twm window manager, Xclock and Xterm.

Blank screen after entering startx upgrade#

I hit accept in the upgrade packages dialogue window, locked my screen, and went to a meeting. To determine the client to run, startx/xinit will first look to parse a /.xinitrc file in the users home directory.