Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-18 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:18:22PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Yes. The only sliver was upgrade to sid, ... Ouch! That's bad advice, the point of no return. or the latest xorg-driver Apparently it was working at some stage and it was an UPGRADE which CAUSED the OP's problem? So upgrading

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/18/13, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:18:22PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Yes. The only sliver was upgrade to sid, ... Ouch! That's bad advice, the point of no return. :) It was just a sliver :/ And another sliver: I think once I got it

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Aug 2013, Harry Putnam wrote: Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net writes: On 8/18/13, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I've been seeing something entirely new and unexpected during boot up lately. Every few boots, something happens that prevents me logging in. .. It

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net writes: [...] Right, and do we know the video hardware, kernel, video driver, etc. ... Dear OP, do you know the video hardware, kernel, video driver, etc. ... my sliver of memory from ~6 or more years ago is not in any way definitive, of course. From

A strange new phenomena

2013-08-17 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been seeing something entirely new and unexpected during boot up lately. Every few boots, something happens that prevents me logging in. I boot to console out of long habit, using startx when I want X, so with this peculiar phenomena I can't login to console. It appears to be something

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/18/13, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I've been seeing something entirely new and unexpected during boot up lately. Every few boots, something happens that prevents me logging in. .. It appears to be a mashup of the grub screen (light blue with white scroll). and made into

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net writes: On 8/18/13, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I've been seeing something entirely new and unexpected during boot up lately. Every few boots, something happens that prevents me logging in. .. It appears to be a mashup of the grub screen (light

Re: A strange new phenomena

2013-08-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/18/13, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net writes: On 8/18/13, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I've been seeing something entirely new and unexpected during boot up lately. Every few boots, something happens that prevents me logging in. ..