X11 failure ?

[Andrew Farris]

Arne Chr. Jorgensen wrote:
> 4. At the moment, any application like in (3) crash the screen. It may go blank, may set up a uniform color, or a lot of vertical stripes. No keys will work, and the
> only option is to use power-off and restart the computer.

I forgot this note about testing.  It might help to go down to runlevel 3, then 
as a normal user, run startx.  As soon as you get to the desktop go ahead and 
start up that application that crashes X.  The crash this time should drop you 
back to your terminal with some useful output.  Use 'startx &> crash-report.txt' 
to capture the output to get in a report.

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