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_goatboy_
May 6th, 2009, 04:17 AM
New user here, first of all. I have read the forum several times in the past to fix issues and you guys always seem to have what I am looking for, so I finally decided to actually sign up and contribute back. But first, I have a problem.

I (like many people) recently upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04. Now when I say "upgraded" I mean I tried to upgrade from the update manager, got some weird graphical errors when I tried to log in to the new system, and ended up doing it via the CD instead. Now it works just fine, except for one thing:

When I come home, I usually just push the power button with my toe (Weird, I know, but it works), get some coffee, and about a minute later I have a login screen waiting for me. At least that was the case with 8.10. What I get now is the splash screen followed by nothing. All black. To remedy this, I must first boot into Recovery Mode, run "xfix - attempt to fix graphical errors" or whatever it is from the dialog, and THEN boot normally. Not a terribly long process, but something I'd like to avoid having to do each time I want to log in.

Background info: I have already removed compiz-core (My graphics card sadly can't handle the default special effects) so I don't think that's a problem. The computer is a bit older, but runs Linux just fine once I get it up and running. Any other relevant information will be supplied upon request.

Thanks in advance for any help.

_goatboy_
May 7th, 2009, 10:08 PM
Bump.

I've Googled a bit and haven't really found anything of much use. That may also be because I don't exactly know what the problem is on a technical level. I also looked at the boot logs, but again I don't quite know what to look for, so this is hard for me to fix.

Anyone had a similar issue that may have a solution? Thanks again in advance for any help.

_goatboy_
May 13th, 2009, 02:49 AM
Bump. This is going to be my last self-bump before I let this thread die for a bit.

agathian
May 13th, 2009, 03:50 AM
When this happens (before you go thru the fix operations) do you see any error in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

you could use ctrl-alt-f1 to login thru command line to check/grab the log file.