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Re: xorg black screen and pointer only



Hi,

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Pjotr Malienki <pjotr.malienki@yahoo.com> (07/05/2010):
> After attempting to upgrade from stable (lenny) to testing (squeeze)
> recently, X broke.

in general, please tell us a bit more, see first paragraph of:
  http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/XserverDebugging

But the question at the end of this mail might be sufficient to get us
started already.

> When I start X (startx, xinit) all I get is a black background with
> the default X cursor. I can move the cursor around, but nothing else
> happens. I don't get the default X background pattern (the one that
> makes one's eyes go sore)

I don't remember the default, but it could be just a black screen now.

> and get no reaction from CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE. I can however switch
> back to a console and kill Xorg.

That's disabled by default, see “DontZap” in the xorg.conf manpage.

> At first glance, Xorg.log doesn't show anything of particular
> interest, neither does my syslog. However, in the same prompt from
> where I startx, I get the following error:
> 
> "xinit: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: xcb_take_socket"

Please run: ldd $(which xinit)
or: ldd /usr/lib/libX11.so.6

Wild guess: either we screwed up badly while checking the symbols, or
you have some local libxcb installed under /usr/local. If that's the
latter, I'd suggest removing it, running ldconfig just to be sure. And
you should be set.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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