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betman
Hello,
After I shut down and started, all I saw was a blank screen. So, restarted now welcome with same blank screen. What should I do to get my system back to normal?
Thank you!#####Extra info
My last actiom was installing and uninstalling lightdm-greeter.
anticapitalista
At that blank screen, Ctrl Alt F1, login as root
dpkg-reconfigure slimreboot
or
use mc- (midnightcommander) as root and check that /etc/X11/default-display-manager has this line
/usr/bin/slimreboot
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.
antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
No gain! Tried both ways.
dpkg-reconfigure slimdidn’t work.And /etc/X11/default-display-manager already has
/use/bin/slim.What can I do next?
caprea
You can also try after Ctrl Alt F1
to start your desktop with
startx /usr/local/bin/desktop-session rox-icewmIf this works you could look at your /var/log/apt/history.log
what was maybe removed or installed and post it here.
dolphin_oracle
did you just do some updates?
I would make sure the updates are complete.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgradefrom the console (cntrl+alt+f1)
seaken64
Is this a new install? I had a similar problem and I re-did the install and chose to scan for bad blocks on the drive and it worked.
Probably not a good idea if this is a working system already.
Seaken64
@caprea
I had removed all default DEs (i.e. icewm,jwm,herbstluftwm) long ago and only have xfce.
And how can I paste the/var/log/apt/history.logdata now?@dolphin_oracle,
The updates are complete. I just did as you’ve said and rebooted. Same blank screen as before.caprea
Did you try just
startxyou can also look at the history.log from the console with
sudo cat /var/log/apt/history.logand make a note of it.
It is sorted by date, the last ones should of course be the important one.I thank everyone for the support. But the damage was irrepairable. I had done too many changes so noting from history log was tedious and even then finding what had broken the system would be tiresome for everyone. Also, I had deleted the .icewm, .jwm files, since I was only using XFCE. So, it was not only updates which could’ve broken the system. Seeing it as a chance to try a new distro, I left it as it was and installed Fedora (used for 10 days) and yesterday I saw the 17.4 release for antiX, and installed it today, and again I’m here. So, once again, I’m thankful to everyone for their advices, thank you guys!
- This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by betman.
Anonymous
Just a small recommendation:
1. Always keep two different WM/DE’s (XFCE + IceWM, for example)
2. Try to avoid ‘Testing’ and stick to ‘Stable’Thanks, noClue!
Yes, that’s the lesson I’ve learnt, albeit the hard way.
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