[IAEP] School Report and request for help replicating some SoaS bugs.

[K. K. Subramaniam]

On Wednesday 06 May 2009 01:56:16 am Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 05.05.2009, at 20:00, Caroline Meeks wrote:
> > On the mac's they seemed to boot fine from the CD+USB but there was
> > some sort of problem with the screen.  I've attached a pic, has
> > anyone else seen it?
>
> Looks a lot like what I reported for the Mac mini:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg03875.html
>
> If I'm not mistaken the Macbook uses the same Intel graphics chip as
> the Mac mini.
Caroline/Bert,

Do you still have access to those machines? If X server is the problem, the 
errors logged in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or $HOME/.xsession-errors will be 
valuable for diagnosis.

If this log is not preserved on the stick, then one has to be boot the system 
'single' user mode? The bootloader will usually have a way to append this boot 
parameter. Once the single user console comes up:
    # startx
will launch the X server and report any errors on the console and also log 
them into /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.

If the graphical login manager is configured to log into a default login 
account, then post-login errors will be logged in $HOME/.xsession-errors.

These two files can give us a clue.

HTH .. Subbu
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