On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 10:58:31AM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2023-10-05, Maria Morisot <[email protected]> wrote: > > I installed the patch for X11 (October 3rd), then rebooted, > > now X is crashing every time I log in on xenodm, > > sometimes I get a blue screen with debug messages,
Were you on the 7.3 Release? And did you patch with syspatch? > > If you show what those debug messages are (copy them down and type into > an email), also collect dmesg - obviously you'll need to run without > xfce to do that - that might give some clues. As things stand there is > no information in this report that will help anyone figure it out. > > > other times I get a square on my screen with a black background, > > and it is otherwise completely frozen, and I can't ctrl-alt-Fn > > into a terminal. I can do this before I try logging in though, > > and I tried reverting the patch but to no avail. > > At that point you're probably in ddb (kernel debugger). > You can try blindly typing "boot r" and see if the system reboots. > If so, you can try booting without X and see if the dmesg shows anything > from the previous boot (which might include kernel error messages) above > your normal boot dmesg. > > > -- > Please keep replies on the mailing list. > At the bootprompt do "boot -s" Enter on the "Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh" prompt mount / mount -a swapon -a rcctl disable xenodm exit Now log in and get the dmesg and the error that happens when you "rcctl -f start xenodm" Regards Ampie
