CentOS 5 :: GUI Won't Load / Screens Goes Black
Dec 21, 2009
I have acquired what appears to be an old Gateway 2000 686 (Intel Chipset 82845G) with a Radeon X1600 graphics card and plan to turn it into a web server, although a minor problem, but I can not get a GUI (GNOME desktop) to load, however a text based server loads fine.Whether I use default 'GNOME Desktop' option at install or load text based install and use yum to install the GUI later, I get a couple of screen flickers and the screen goes black on start up.
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Feb 12, 2010
How can I make the background white area on all of my windows to appear black?
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Apr 12, 2011
I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 and I have this annoying issue. it does happen very often, but enough to be a problem (atleast once a day or more).While I'm browsing the web (not really doing much of anything else) the screen goes black with some text. I don't get enough time to read the text and I'm returned to the login screen. I'm completely logged off, my session isn't still there when I log back in
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Jun 25, 2011
after initing PulseAudio, again only black sreens. I booted from an USB stick, tried mounting both filesystems, worked fine. I renamed my xorg.conf and booted from the first array. Worked with minimal video (low resolution, one screen only). Tried ATI control panel, claimed no driver active. I downloaded and installed a newer version of the proprietary ATI driver. Rebooted, got 3 screens at the right resolution. Problem seemed to be solved, all I had to do was configure ATI control panel to use 3 screens as one desktop.
Started ATI control panel, after clicking on the right section (nothing saved yet), CPU usage spiked, mouse froze. Crap. Rebooted, gnome froze before even showing desktop or populating top and bottom panels. Just black screens with empty panels top and bottom. Booted the USB. Ran fsck on both filesystems. No errors. Fear of not being to able to perform any work today ensued. Logged into ubuntuforums and explained the situation.
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Mar 4, 2009
Just downloaded f10 last night. Install goes fine, but when I boot it goes to root command line. I enter in startx and recieve and error.
(EE)Unable to locate/open config file
(EE)open /dev/fb0: no such file or directory
(EE)No devices detected
Fatal Server Error:
no screens found
xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error
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Jan 20, 2011
I have a PC installed with FC 14:AMD 9500 Quad Core4GB RAM2x ATI X1950I've been using FC14 for a few weeks after updating from FC13.The graphics driver was a default one, it worked but it would only recognise one of my screen cards and I wanted to install the ATI Catalyst software so I began the process of installing the proper drivers.I followed the howto at: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=155503 Once I'd finished the driver seemed to be sort of working but everything was going really slow. If I moved a window it'd take a while to redraw in the new position, menus took ages to pop up, and so on.
I tried running aticonfig and got an error message (unfortunately the only record of it is on the machine I can't access properly). I put the message into a search engine and found a bug stating the same message where people had the same problem with Nvidia and intel cards too.The problem was something to do with python and how it started up the drivers (sorry I can't remember the message). The bug had an rpm attached that was a patch to fix this problem (I'm blabbing on in case any of this jogs the memory of someone that had this problem or worked on it).I installed the patch and rebooted and now Fedora gets as far as the black screen where a progress bar fills in white at the bottom of the screen but it stops there. Once the bar is completely white it sits there and gets on further no matter how long I wait.Does anyone know how I can recover this system? Is there a way of getting the system to recreate xorg.conf before this stage and load using the default driver again? The point it's hanging at is the point where it would normally bring up the graphical progress bar then the login screen.
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Sep 1, 2010
At this moment I suffer from crashing Firefox and Chromium (lots of black screens), on both Windows 7 and SuSE 11.3.So I think smth is wrong with Firefox.AMD 64-bit 5000+HP Pavillon 7760
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Oct 19, 2010
I have an Acer Aspire 4730Z laptop running Edubuntu 10.10 (32 bit, clean install). My problem is with the boot process. After boot and everything seems working properly, I will get the ?black screen of death? followed by the log in screen. Unfortunately, the display is made up of nothing but horizontal and vertical lines, leaving noting recognizable. I have to do a hard restart. I have to go through this process 2-4 times before I am up and running. The ?black screen of death? occurs right after I load any program
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Mar 1, 2009
how to work with linux (centos 5.2 64bit) but i am having a hard time to get this screen install. I was going to try this but i was not sure as i have reinstall the os many times because i do something wrong.
apt-get install screen
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Aug 6, 2009
Google has not found the information I ws looking for. Does anyone have any information how to adjust the variouse splash screens displayed during the boot process?
We are working on an applience project where we would like to add a company logo to the boot and desktop screens. (Worked out the desktop already)
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Nov 3, 2010
when i get the boot loader screen i choose Ubuntu , and then i get to choose recovery mode or Normal mode , in either , i get some sort of a list , and then i Get a Black Screen , Nth ,But i hear a sound of May be Ubuntu starting ...so what can i do to see my Ubuntu ????is there is away for help , i just need to run Both my Original Reinstalled Win 7 64 bit ,
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Feb 3, 2010
When i open my pc and load ubuntu 9.10 a black screen opens and i should write my user and then my password i was doing something in the terminal last time but i don't remember what how can i fix it ? i don't care if i lost data
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Jan 19, 2010
I decided I wanted to give ubuntu a go by installing it on a 4GB USB drive.
I installed it using this guide url.
I booted up and it hung on the 'mounting file system', I left it for ages and eventually it goes to a black screen and prints out an error message, I can't type anything on my keyboard.
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Mar 18, 2011
Apology for dual post I realized was in wrong place.Created verified 11.3 live CDInserted, restarted, welcome screen, choices next, I choose installation.Kernel loaded then black blank screen guess you call it a freeze upWindows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Edition Partitioned plenty room
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Feb 22, 2011
Ive installed centos freebsd and mandriva but i want to manage grub from my centos and y create successfully a boot load for freebds. But for mandriva it just doesnt work... so how can a create a boot load entry for mandriva from grub centos?
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Mar 21, 2011
i have just installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a pre installed windows 7 system. Ubuntu is working really well but the only problem is that when I try to boot into windows,
I get the windows sign and then I get a black screen and windows does not load. It seems to be an easy problem to solve because I can actually boot windows 7 in
safe mode with no problems at all! The problem is there when I try to boot windows 7 normally. To be honest I only need windows for a project that uses MSQL server.
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Feb 21, 2010
Few days after installing Ubunto 9.10, during installation of gstreamer, the installation utility got stuck, and with it the whole desktop icons. (I think the gstreamer has nothing to do with it). When I tried to execute some icon, like the terminal, it will not open. After restarting the computer, I get a tty1 login terminal and not the graphical one (tty7). When pressing Ctrl+Alt+F7, nothing happens. It switches to a black screen. "sudo startx", gives some error log. I already reinstalled the X-server, ubuntu desktop and other stuff.
What can be the problem? Is it related to my video card (nvidia 7600 GT)? I didn't install any nvidia specific driver. This happened to me earlier and I reinstalled Ubunto. I think maybe I should move to some other distribution.
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Mar 15, 2010
I guess I messed around with my computer a little too much when I was bored. I tried installing compiz and emerald and my computer locked up. Rebooted and then it stays on a black screen. Rebooted and tried safe mode now. Removed emerald by command prompt to see if that would work and rebooted.
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Mar 2, 2010
I have a new installed CentOS with Asterisk on a dell p4 286 ram, 40gigHD and am unable to get the asterisk gui to start. After new installation i am able to get all the way to the root@localhost level. Every command I use (from forum answers and site searches) deems a "no such file or directory" response from the server.s a precaution, I re-downloaded and re-installed the application. Is there a direct command to run at root@localhost to start the asterisk gui and if so what is it? When I type asterisk -r (or any command with asterisk in it) it responds "asterisk is running in a different directory". If not, can someone please direct me to the correct help section to uninstall CentOS until I am able to test on my own machine at home and learn the entire system before reinstalling it as our phone server. I have limited time at work to get the VoIP to install and run.
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May 12, 2010
I can't seem to get Ubuntu to run on my old Dell Dimension 2300. It boots to a purple screen then it goes to a black screen with a load of writing nothing else happens after this screen. [URL] Could someone advise how I can get it to work?
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Jan 13, 2010
I decided to give a try to VNC server on my remote dedicated centos machine. WHAT I DID:
yum groupinstall "X window system"
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
yum install vnc-server
Followed the Centos wiki tutorial.
PROBLEM: After typing the password in my vnc viewer I get a black screen with cursor. I can move the cursor about but thats it.
SOLUTION: I have googled like crazy for the last 2 days but have not found a solution yet. My best guess is xorg.conf file, but I am quite new to linux so could be wrong.
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Feb 6, 2010
I want to install a Centos Server. In the installation I choose the Gnome desktop, server, virtualization and server gui. I installed the os but when I reboot Centos doesn't appear :(, there is a black screen and it's not possible to write.
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Jul 29, 2011
when i install centos 5.6 on dell optiplex 990 i got black screen when anaconda start
my graphics card is Intel HD Graphics and i7 Sandy Bridge
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Apr 29, 2009
I have updated kernel with yum update kernel. After rebooting my CentOS i saw only black screen with text GRUB. What should I do to restore loading of my centOS?
I forgot to add: CentOS 5.3
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Nov 16, 2009
I'm install CentoS 5.3 but I've not a GUI... when I swith , screen is black... maybe problem in Video Card... I'm download this driver, but I don't know how to install ... Driver is NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.42-pkg1.run - how CentoS 5.3 work in 256 mb card...
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Feb 9, 2010
I had VNC working with accounts that were logged in. Then I went thru the procedure for vnc-itsp-config (step 5 of the how-to-centos5 vnc server wiki) so that I could log in remotely to an account that was not already logged in.
All went well until....I tried to log in and all I get is this X11 window with a X cursor and a black screen.
I have restarted the vncserver service but I suspect it is a x11 issue (just a guess).
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Oct 20, 2009
I been working on this issue for a couple days without success. PHP.ini will not load extensions. I am able to modify php.ini parameters successfully with the exception of the extensions. It would be appreciated if someone can shed some light on this issue.
Troublshoot
check for multiply php.ini
restart apache
1. Environment:
CentoOS 5.2
Apache2
PHP 5.11
2. dir
apache2= /usr/local/apache2
php = /usr/local/apache2/php
lib = /usr/lib which contains pdo.so, pdo_mysql.so, sqlite.so, pdo_sqlite.so
[code]....
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Oct 18, 2010
I'm writing from the IBM Thinkpad A30 with Linux CentOS! After installed CentOS I've see a message when the sistem start....and this message said: ACPI: Could not use ECDT. (think is a BIOS error....but this is what I've read with a Google search.....). After the first start I've make the update (suggested by the OS) and, after make the reboot....same problem. I see a black screen and the power light of the HD seems run....but don'a appear any sort of screen immages/text.
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Jan 26, 2011
I am running a dell poweredge 2600 in which i just now did a fresh install of Centos 5.5 KDE. The install went perfectly with no hiccups or errors. I reboot the server and centos dose its normal checking everything and giving a Green"OK" or Red"Error" and everything seems to be fine. I then get to a black screen with a X mouse cursor, i can move the cursor freely and i can turn the Num Lock key on and off and i can do a Ctrl+Alt+F5 and then reboot with a Ctrl+Alt+Del smoothly, but i just cant get the centos to boot up all the way into the GUI.
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May 6, 2009
My monitor previously connected to a Linux Centos5, no problem, X works very well. Then I connected it with a Xbox 360 and changed the screen resolution, no problem, it woked very well too.BUT, when I changed it back to Linux.I can't login on the graphic screen.What i can do is login under text interface as NON-root user accout.How can I login the X? and How can I switch linux and xbox freely later?
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