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Re: What do you do when your sid development system stops working?



On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 08:45:36AM +0200, Greg Horn wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> It might be helpful if you mention how far you can get. For instance, are
> you stuck in X11 with no screen, or do you know how to log into your system
> through the linux console by pressing ctrl-alt-F3 (or F4, F5...)? Did you
> try a previous kernel from the grub boot menu?

I logged in using ctrl-alt-f1. Tried restarting gdm3, then
stopping gdm3, using kdm instead. Did not work.
Stopping the dm, and login as user, and startx did not work.

The previous kernel did not help.


> 
> Best,
> Greg
> 

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