Thanks Ben. I'll try that. As usual with intermittent problems it hasn't recurred since you wrote this. It can go a week or more without a problem and then boot into text mode multiple times in one day. Truth is, this machine boots so fast it's only a minor issue at the moment. My big concern is that one day it won't recover, although I guess that would make debugging a bit easier. I'll let you know the outcome next time it happens.
Mike On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 21:48 -0400, Ben Scott wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:22 PM, michael miller <k4...@comcast.net> wrote: > > I get a normal command line login prompt and can log in. Everything > > appears completely normal until booting halts at the command line login. > > OK. The next time that happens -- you get a text-only login prompt > -- login normally, and run the command > > startx > > That will start the X GUI from a text-only command prompt session. > If that doesn't work, either, it's likely some problem with the video > card or driver. If that works, it's prolly something to do with what > services/options the system is starting with. > > > The reason I thought that it might be a grub issue is that the grub menu > > lists as one option entering "c" to boot to a command line. > > That "c" option refers to going to the GRUB command line, where you > can manually issue commands to prepare to boot Linux. > > -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
