[SOLVED] Hangs for aged at fsck at boot then black screen on startx

Hi fellow Archers,
I'm really stumped here. I resized my arch partition to install another distro alongside. After, arch hung for 5-10min at the fsck screen and once it gets past this startx fails with a black screen. I've tried a few things and at one point it booted up fine (no hang at fsck) and I was able to start x, which makes me think the issues are related, I'm unsure what changed and cannot reproduce. My UUIDs in grub.cfg and fstab look fine to me (if this is relevant). I'll post any files/logs on request as I'm on a phone just now.
EDIT: The UUID for my swap partition in fstab was incorrect. Alls well after correcting it. Anyone know why this would cause x to give a black screen?
Last edited by coire (2013-12-11 12:08:17)

When you resized the partition, it caused the UUID of the partition to change. The drive couldn't be mounted, and this caused the hang in startx.

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