Have you tried just booting with lightdm disabled, logging in through the cli and running startx?
Not sure if it would work, but it's worth a shot. /tony Carl Brewer wrote: > > I've almost finished setting up my new i5/NVIDIA 1030 server. latest pkg > image-update today, my WD red pros arrived at last so I could build my > ZFS mirror for the data store, it's all coming together. I've turned > off atime on rpool and my other zpools. Rebooted, everything seems fine. > > Everything works on my dining room table, rebooted, it's solid. So it's > time to move it into the rack in my office. > > I have a HDMI and USB KVM switch I plug it into. Not really paying much > attention, I didn't watch the console when it booted, I don't think I > even had it plugged in to a monitor at the time. > > Long story short, it keeps kernel panic'ing if lightdm is enabled. I can > boot without lightdm and it's fine. I'd like the GUI though. The ASCII > console is pretty close to useless, it's slow as mud. Inherited that > from SPARC I guess ... In the OId Days, when I had a Sun 3/60(!) as my > desktop, the ASCII console was faster. heh. IPX, Sparc 2, no quicker. I > never cared, I ran X11 on them, meh ... > > Things I have tried, after getting rid of the KVM switch from the > situation. > > Connected directly to the original (previously working) monitor with the > originally working HDMI cable. > > Replacing the 1030 with a NVIDIA 1660 GFX card I had lying around. > > different HDMI cable > > different monitor > > HDMI/SVGA adaptor cable instead of KVM switch > > No luck. I've even tried booting off the (working, or it used to!) USB > drive Aurelian set up for me. It won't boot lightdm up. Kernel panic. I > don't get it. It worked this afternoon! Reverted back to last week's OI > boot environment (which worked!), nope ... > > I'm stumped, short of resetting the BIOS, I can't think of anything else > to try to revert it back to how it was 4 hours ago when it worked on the > table! It's back there now, and I can log in remotely. > > If anyone has any suggestions for how to debug it? Or how to just get at > it using a VNC client - all the "set up VNC for OI" instructions I've > found are ancient and don't mention lightdm. If I can't have a GUI > console, that's ok, as long as I can get at it using VNC. > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- Tony Albers - Systems Architect - Data Department, Royal Danish Library, Victor Albecks Vej 1, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark Tel: +45 2566 2383 - CVR/SE: 2898 8842 - EAN: 5798000792142 _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
