On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:54:20 -0400, Chris Capon wrote:

> After a recent Debian update, I've been unable to log in to my
> Debian/Linux server using the console and GDM3 won't start - X.org
> crashes part way through the startup.

What can be read from X server error logs?

(you can boot from single-user mode and work from there)

> I think ACPID may be the cause because in syslog there is an endless
> repetition of the same messages every few seconds.  Below is a sample.

(...)

> Sep 12 06:36:06 cczip acpid: client 28379[0:0] has disconnected 
> Sep 12 06:36:06 cczip acpid: client 28381[0:0] has disconnected 
> Sep 12 06:36:06 cczip acpid: client 28387[0:0] has disconnected

(...)

Mmm... my wild guess is the X server is crashing and makes "acpid" going 
nuts.
 
Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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