RE: How to recover from blank screen on sparc64

2017-06-22 Thread Rick Leir
I hope this will be useful but it might be a tangent. Gnome has given me black screen on startup on two different systems in the past month. Is your installation using the gnome greeter? In the first system I tracked the problem back to gtk trying to contact the greeter via dbus when there was n

RE: How to recover from blank screen on sparc64

2017-06-22 Thread Tom Demler
Not seeing any error messages on the serial console. I'm seeing a two-line error message flashing briefly on the blank screen. Something about lp0 using parport0 - interrupt driven Here is something that appears in Xorg.0.log: [ 7252.851] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" [ 725