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 along the line of a screensaver window that has taken over the console. It appears to be a mashup of the grub screen (light blue with white scroll). and made into tiles mashed together haphazardly. That, at least, describes the upper portion of the screen. Maybe around 75%. The bottom portion is a bunch of horizontal bars squeezed together and in various thicknesses... none more that 1/4 inch and most closer to 1/16. These seem to be a mixture of blue white and black. Anyone who has seen one of the Xscreensavers that take parts of the display and make a mashup will have an idea what I'm trying to describe here. On occasion this oddness doesn't consume the whole screen and my boot messages still appear on some small piece of the screen and I can still login from that small piece. Once logged in it all disappears. But on those occasions when the screensaver thingie takes the whole screen I cannot log in at all. I've resorted to ssh in and try to kill whatever is making the blotto looking screen, but haven't been able to figure out what it is. going thru ps wwaux output with less, but I'm not seeing what it might be. Finally I just either reboot from ssh or hard reboot until I get a normal looking boot up. Or at least one that allows me to login. That usually happen in one try but sometimes it takes several. I'm not sure this new phenomena followed a major upgrade from wheezy to 'testing' because I had a higher than usual uptime somewhere around the same time I did a major upgrade. I think it is probably related though. I hope this post doesn't sound completely insane because I really do see it even without the drugs... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pptc6i5q....@newsguy.com
