Blank Screen after boot [SOLVED]

pyrho · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 30 Location: Paris, France

Hi all,

I've installed gentoo about a month ago, installed things i needed, configured X etc.
It was working perfectly, then i didn't boot on linux for a while.
Today when i booted on gentoo after the boot (all the "blablabla [ok]" went right), at the line "setting up gdm" when the screen turns black to launch the x server and gdm, it freezes, i can't kill X (ctrl+alt+backspace) nor can i change console (ctrl+alt+F1 F2 etc. or ctrl+F1 F2 etc.) .
I don't understand cause i didn't touche anything, i can't even connect trough ssh.
Maybe an rc-update del gdm would solve the problem but how can I do this when i can't even boot ? trough the live CD ?

Any help would be appreciated (:
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b1f30 · Apprentice Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 262 Location: USA

pyrho · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 30 Location: Paris, France

thx a lot i'll try and keep you inform
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Nick C · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:40 pm Post subject:

if it boots fine until you start X simply press i as its booting, that will enter interactive boot mode and ask you whether or not to start each service, then just decline to start xdm (which would in turn start gdm and X) and carry on as normal, assuming all gos well you should get to a command prompt, obviously if everything locks up still then you know its not X thats the problem.

pyrho · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 30 Location: Paris, France

Before booting on the live CD i tried Nick C's method, but pressing 'i' continuously or keeping it pressed during boot doesn't do anything.
My keyboard is plug via USB is it the reason ?
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Nick C · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:04 pm Post subject:

assuming it worked beforehand on the commandline then no, as it boots, do you see a message just after kernel loads but before most of the services start saying 'press i to enter interactive mode'? If you dont it could be because i run ~x86 and its not in the current stable baselayout, if you dont see that message then your pretty much stuck with having to chroot in from a livecd.

pyrho · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 30 Location: Paris, France

Wow i'm impressed thanks for the velocity of the reply Nick ;p
After grub does its stuff the juste marked Uncompressing Linux or something like that Then the green message 'Gentoo linux blablabla' .
But anyway I disabled gdm through the live CD.
Booted fine, but when i launched startxfce4 the same thing happenned, so i checked the x server logs, and read again that dri for radeon 9500 and + was _highly experimental_ ^^ so i disabled all the thing concerning dri in my xorg.conf and it works fine.
Still i'll try to fix this cause enableing dri on my ati 9600 was very tough ;D

Thx everyone for helping so quickly, gentoo rockz ( and what makes it rock is its community ! )
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