>> Today I am unable to log into my computer. I get a blank screen and even >> after rebooting I still get the blank screen forever. I have seen other >> people mention similar problems with OpenSolaris 2008 05. >> >> Any ideas? This is making it hard for me to use OpenSolaris on my Sun Ultra >> 24 workstation as a development computer. I'm afraid that I'll get locked >> out of my computer every few days and have to reinstall the OS. >> >> FYI I do have Compiz turned on. >> > > I would have guessed a memory leak, but you say it persists after > reboot. I suppose you could have filled up a filesystem as well, or > have a failing disk... > > Try booting to single-user mode, and having a look around. (When the > grub menu comes up, select the menu item, but press 'e', and add "-s" > to the end of the kernel line... unless you've customized something.) > This is a brand new Sun Ultra 24 workstation with nothing installed except OpenSolaris 2005 08, postgres, jdk6 and netbeans. I know the hard drive is not full. I don't think it is a failing disk either because this computer has been reliable until I installed OpenSolaris 2008 05. It didn't do that with Indiana Preview 2, but I didn't have Compiz turned on then.
I tried booting into single-user mode, same problem. The weird thing is last time this happened (a week or so ago) the problem went away by itself. One day it just started working again and I was able to use the computer for almost a week before it happened again. Same symptoms as last time: gray screen and mouse pointer when logging into gnome, and mouse pointer. I'll try Gilles' suggestion of uninstalling compiz package(s). If that helps, then I will install an older version of compiz and see if the problem persists. If I can't get it to work I'll re-install the OS and either leave compiz disabled, or downgrade it to see if it helps. Thanks, Ryan
