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FlooD
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probably not the right place to post this but whatever

I was updating around 60 packages and after it finished it asked for a reboot

a while later I tried to reboot... But my monitor just turned black and the system wasn't responding (i.e. Pressing caps lock did nothing).

so I held down the power button for 5 secs and then booted again. Got pass grub fine and tried to boot into debian. After the regular text part, black screen + unresponsive system again yay

so basically x and/or gdm3 is broken.

I forced the computer off again and booted into debian's recovery mode which worked fine.

fsck -n tells me that part of the hard drive is messed up
I'll see what I can do with fsck tomorrow :p


btw I have two other operating systems which work - xp and linuxfromscratch

(note: trying to fix the debian partition using the linuxfromscratch system would be problematic cuz the former is ext4 and the latter runs on ext3)

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Well, this has happened to me before, the problem is that your display settings ( which are stored as an xml document or tyhe like on your computer ) can sometimes be corrupted by the "hold power button for 5 secs" thing, so one way is to get used to using the terminal for everything. Or change to another virtual terminal with cntrl+alt+2 or whatever and type 'startx' into it. This might solve your problems. However I cannot be sure because I normally use a GNU/Linux distro called SliTaz. I also use Fedora Core but last time I checked Fedora core wasn't much like the original Debian.

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@sunny don't have a cd drive on this comp. (i installed debian by booting from xp)
@danny I've tried ctrl alt f2... No response.
startx from recovery mode does the black screen too lmao

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FlooD
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tried all of them yesterday and nothing happened

as I said before, the system is COMPLETELY unresponsive after entering the black screen. The caps/num lock buttons don't even do anything...

I'm planning on using a live usb and running fsck or something from there

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FlooD
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no
my only hope is throwing this god dam fcking ati card in the garbage.

turns out fglrx drivers got screwed up. now i have to use xorg's ati drivers which means no cs2d on linux for me

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Drivers? Lol, that happens a lot too when you turn off with the power button, once I corrupted a entire re-compile of Linux ( added a couple networking modules ) when I did that. It wasn't that bad, I still had the source, but the problem was that it took hours
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