GDM black screen issue.
Hi All, Sorry but I am new to this, this is the issue I encounter, first I manage to install Debian succesfully on an Sun Ultra 5 and I wanted to get the GUI running and installed GDM. After using apt-get to install gdm, and restart, with kernel loading and all, when it comes to GDM, the screen turns black and nothing. I have to power off. Each time I power on, the system would automatically run GDM. Is there a way to stop loading GDM and use the command line to log in instead? Please advice. Thank you. Vincent. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GDM black screen issue.
boot: Linux single Then when in singlemode you can remove gdm and or check if your xserver is configured correctly when gdm starts it starts the Xserver. then the screen becomes grey and thereafter gdm will be displayed. so i think your xserver config is wrong. you can try it by starting X by hand and then if after a few minutes it fails you should look into /var/log/ there are the xserverlogs Regards Daniel Am 30.8.2006 schrieb vincent young [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi All, Sorry but I am new to this, this is the issue I encounter, first I manage to install Debian succesfully on an Sun Ultra 5 and I wanted to get the GUI running and installed GDM. After using apt-get to install gdm, and restart, with kernel loading and all, when it comes to GDM, the screen turns black and nothing. I have to power off. Each time I power on, the system would automatically run GDM. Is there a way to stop loading GDM and use the command line to log in instead? Please advice. Thank you. Vincent. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems on Blade 1000 after etch instalation
Hello, I have been trying to install Debian Etch on a Blade 1000 using a netboot image. The machine has 2 FCAL disks for storage. After the instalation the machine loads silo and when the system is booting it finally stays for ever with a message that says waiting for root filesystem. I have checked the initrd and it has in the module tree the qlogicfc. The qloficfc controller seems to be detected on boot but at the end I have a lot of messages regarding qla2xxx that I dont know if they should be there. Thanks in advance, Luis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GDM black screen issue.
vincent young wrote: Sorry but I am new to this, this is the issue I encounter, first I manage to install Debian succesfully on an Sun Ultra 5 and I wanted to get the GUI running and installed GDM. After using apt-get to install gdm, and restart, with kernel loading and all, when it comes to GDM, the screen turns black and nothing. I have to power off. Each time I power on, the system would automatically run GDM. Is there a way to stop loading GDM and use the command line to log in instead? When the screen is black, try pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 to move to the first text-based virtual terminal. If that doesn't work, try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to see if that will kill X (although it's likely to start back up again automatically, so this probably won't do you much good). Or you can start Debian in single-user mode. At the lilo/grub prompt, entering linux single should do the trick. Once logged in as root, you can deactivate GDM in a number of ways; if you don't want it all you can remove it (aptitude remove gdm); my personal preference is to put the single line exit 0 as the first non-comment line in /etc/init.d/gdm. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GDM black screen issue.
Kent West wrote: Or you can start Debian in single-user mode. At the lilo/grub prompt, Oops, Sparc list; I reckon that'd be silo prompt, if I can remember properly that far back. (I've never bothered to unsubscribe from this list, even though I haven't had any Sparcs for several years now.) -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems on Blade 1000 after etch instalation
After more testing it seems that the machine does not wait for ever, at the end it fails to found and mount the root partition. I have also a Ultra 60 with the same instalation that boots. I have copied the initrd in the boot directory with another file name like oldinit when I try to boot with boot:1/vmlinuz initrd=1/oldinit I have the same problem than with the blade 1000 (initrd.img found and scsi module loaded but wait for root file system message and finally dropped to a shell). How can I make that the root file system is mounted on the blade1000? Which is the difference that makes the Ultra60 not to load when specifying the initrd file when this file works on normal booting? I would thank any light on this problem. Luis El mié, 30-08-2006 a las 11:33 +0200, Luis Martinez escribió: Hello, I have been trying to install Debian Etch on a Blade 1000 using a netboot image. The machine has 2 FCAL disks for storage. After the instalation the machine loads silo and when the system is booting it finally stays for ever with a message that says waiting for root filesystem. I have checked the initrd and it has in the module tree the qlogicfc. The qloficfc controller seems to be detected on boot but at the end I have a lot of messages regarding qla2xxx that I dont know if they should be there. Thanks in advance, Luis
Re: Fujitsu PrimePower 250
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 08:09:02PM +0200, Nizar TLILI wrote: I need now to know how to get in touch with Debian (or Linux Kernel) developers to know what modules are to be modified. A good starting point may be the sparclinux list - take a look at http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#sparclinux. Not sure if it's the best place to discuss SPARC kernel hacking, but it looks to be a good start. -mj -- Michael-John Turner | http://mjturner.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Open Source in WC ZA - http://www.clug.org.za/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems on Blade 1000 after etch instalation
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, Luis Martinez wrote: After more testing it seems that the machine does not wait for ever, at the end it fails to found and mount the root partition. If it did work during install, but fails to boot from the hard drive, there is likely a problem with initrd. During boot the modules, required for the root partition to operate, are loaded. Since the loading is asynchronous, the process than waits for the devices to show up. If the needed driver was not loaded, or the wrong driver was used, it should just drop you to a shell after a while. From there you can try to check what modules are loaded (cat /proc/modules if lsmod is not available) and manually load the needed module(s) (try insmod qlogicfc, if you are sure that this is the right one). You can also compare the lists of modules during the install (make sure the disks are detected, then press 'Back' a few times to get to the main menu, select 'Start a shell' and run lsmod to get it) with the one you have in the emergency initrd shell. You might also check that all the needed modules are actually available on the initrd. This information should help us to figure out what went wrong. Best regards, Jurij Smakov[EMAIL PROTECTED] Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tatung Sparc computers
I work for World Care, a charity in Tucson, AZ, USA. We recently received a donation of several Tatung TWS-6920 computers. We have no use for them as they are in various states of disrepair. They contain salvageable parts. I will salvage these parts, either for reuse or scrap, over the next few weeks. If there are Debian SPARC developers in the area interested in these machines or components, please contact me. The computers appear to be clones of the Sun Blade 1000 and are pretty much Sun inside. Earl URL http://deserthowler.cjb.net Instant messenger: earlcoyote ICQ:64033496 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
