I decided to check if X works on my new server and ran into the
following problem:
Server starts at run level 3 and operates fine.
When I:
startx
from the command line, X loads, then when it reaches the point where it
displays the splash screen for login, the splash screen flashes up for a
moment, with the cursor displaying as a hash of colour, then the screen
goes blank.
I can ssh into the machine from another workstation, so the machine
hasn't hung. "top" reveals that the X process is now thrashing the CPU
away at 100%. But no response from keyboard or monitor of the server
itself.
Only way to bring it back is to do a shutdown via the ssh session.
Can anyone suggest how I should go about debugging this issue?
Regards,
Langdon
