Got it - and thanks. The interesting thing is the machine will start correctly from rescue mode every time.
I'm not a developer, but it appears the machine is blowing past something required to start X; sometimes I get a black screen with backlight and sometimes slim just gives up and drops me at a login prompt. The only other thing I can think of is this laptop boots from an SSD; smartctl shows zero errors but on a normal boot X starts at about five seconds uptime. Something is causing X to not start, but that error is not reproducible if you go through rescue mode first. Rescue mode + Ctrl-D works every time. Strange. And - thanks again :) On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > control: tags -1 moreinfo > > Oh, wait. Sorry, mistake on my part. I checked the wrong bug number. > This one, #774020, is actually not clear yet. This smells like a > X/display-manager/graphics driver issue, but needs further investigation. > > I'm putting the moreinfo tag back for now. > > > -- > Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the > universe are pointed away from Earth? > >
