Terminal is blank

Everything is functioning fine on my mac; but my terminal is blank and won't accept input. Just blank. Just get a normal error sound

Are you suffering from the problem described here: Mac OS X 10.3: The Terminal window is too small, and I can't make it bigger?
If that's not your problem, you'll need to spell it out more, as baltwo suggests.

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[SOLVED] GNOME terminal is completely blank

When I open the gnome terminal, it is completely blank, not the usual "$ user@computer". Any ideas?
Last edited by r42xer (2012-04-28 00:37:04)

Haha, silly me, the text was black on a black background. Gee do I feel stupid. Closing.

NVidia GTX 770M boots to blank terminal window

Apologies if this ends up being a trivial question but I've been Googling for a while and nothing has worked so far.
I have a laptop with an NVidia GTX 770M Optimus card and I'm struggling with display issues with the NVidia drivers. Before installing the drivers the machine booted to the DM fine, but after installing them and generating an xorg.conf with the NVidia tool it will only boot to a (virtually) blank terminal window. The only message that appears is:
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Blank terminal window

I am looking at a blank Terminal window with only a prompt in it.
I can type at the prompt but cannot execute any commands.
I tried re-choosing some settings in preferences and also
deleting com.apple.Terminal.plist but it remained unchanged...
How can I get back to a normal Terminal window?
-mj

Thanks for replying...
I'm embarrassed to admit that a restart seemed to solve it :-/
I went to another disk to do something and when I booted back,
my Terminal window was back to normal.
It reported nothing, as I said. The only thing written to my Console.log is a mail message.
Yes, I did try to modify some preferences to get bash to be my profile again but that had no effect on the Terminal window.
7/7/10 1:41:34 PM Mail[24489] * Assertion failure in -[ComposeBackEnd setAccount:], /SourceCache/Mail/Mail-1081/Compose.subproj/ComposeBackEnd.m:1522
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0 Message 0x00007fff8350f488 -[MFAssertionHandler _handleFailureWithPreamble:description:arguments:] + 137
1 Message 0x00007fff8350f3ed -[MFAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 220
2 Mail 0x0000000100144da8 0x0 + 4296297896
3 Foundation 0x00007fff8603664a _NSSetObjectValueAndNotify + 258
4 Mail 0x0000000100143396 0x0 + 4296291222
5 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8764bd2c _invoking__ + 140
6 CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8764bbfd -[NSInvocation invoke] + 141
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8 Message 0x00007fff833507f3 -[_MFInvocationOperation main] + 275
9 Foundation 0x00007fff86043061 -[__NSOperationInternal start] + 681
10 Foundation 0x00007fff86042d17 ___startOperations_block_invoke2 + 99
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13 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff873ca088 pthreadwqthread + 353
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Terminal is COMPLETELY blank. Sits at "login" and nothing works.

Opened up Terminal.app and the window is *completely blank*. There is nothing in it whatsoever. Bash never started. The title bar simply says "Terminal — login — 80x24". I can type whatever I want in the Terminal window like it's a text document and nothing happens. If I restart the computer, this seems to fix the problem, but it seems to only be a temporary fix as the issue happens again soon after.
Any ideas?

I found that, even if "Command (complete path):" is selected (instead of "Default login shell (/usr/bin/login)") the shell is not started directly by Terminal but started via login (as "login -pfq username /path/to/the/shell").
Start Activity Monitor.app, and select "All Processes" from the pop-up menu at the top of the window. Then click onece or twice on the "PID" (title of the left most column of the process list) so that the process list is sorted in the decreasing order of pid (largest pid at the top of the list).
Also start Console.app, and select "All Messages" (or system.log) in in the left pane of the window.
Now start Terminal.app (or open a new window in Terminal). In my case, Activity Monitor shows "login", "zsh" (=my shell) and "taskgated" are started in this order, and taskgated terminates in a 10 seconds or so. Console.app shows the message like
DATE TIME login[62364]: USER_PROCESS: 62364 ttys000
Do you get this kind of log message? Any other messages (errors) in Console.app?
If you think "login" is hanging, then, in Activity Monitor, select the process "login" in the process list, push the "Inspect" button at the top of the window, and push the "Sample" button; you may need to enter the admin password. Then you will see some info about what the "login" is doing now. Does this give any hit about what is going wrong?
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Terminal does not login; blank window

Hello!
I use the Terminal occasionally and today I had to run a sudo command. It asked for my password, but I decided to cancel the command because I was in a hurry. I quit the terminal and now, every time I open it, nothing happens.
There is a white window where every command just does not work! Nothing happens!!
You can type in what you want, but nothing else.
Any suggestions?

As an experiment, download and try iTerm (free download)
<http://iterm.sourceforge.net/>
If iTerm fails the same way, then the problem has nothing to do with Terminal. If iTerm works, then it is something specific to Terminal.
Using iTerm is a way to narrow down where the problem might be.
You said you were following a tutorial, so it is also possible that some steps in the tutorial before the sudo command actually messed things up, but it would not be evident until you restarted Terminal.
Oh yea. Terminal and Unix oriented questions are best asked in the Mac OS X Technologies > Unix Forum
<http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735>
Message was edited by: BobHarris

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I installed Arch on my desktop last week with no issues, so I wanted to install it on an old THinkpad R31. Everything with the installation went smooth, but when I try to 'startx' all I get is a blank screen with a mouse cursor that I can move around. I've installed xorg-xinit, xorg-twm, xorg-xclock, and xterm.
I'm not getting any significant errors in the logs, or even the terminal I issue 'startx' in.
I'm not sure what the problem could be...
Here is my output from 'startx'
X.Org X Server 1.13.0
Release Date: 2012-09-05
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.6.0-1-ARCH i686
Current Operating System: Linux x_00294-ibc 3.5.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 7 19:33:50 CEST 2012 i686
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=ec6a9a60-8d8c-4de0-960b-9e2a044d0ca5 ro quiet
Build Date: 05 October 2012 02:01:30PM
Current version of pixman: 0.26.2
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Oct 13 09:26:12 2012
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
Initializing built-in extension XTEST
Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS
Initializing built-in extension SYNC
Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC
Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
Initializing built-in extension RENDER
Initializing built-in extension RANDR
Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
Initializing built-in extension RECORD
Initializing built-in extension DPMS
Initializing built-in extension X-Resource
Initializing built-in extension XVideo
Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DGA
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DRI
Initializing built-in extension DRI2
Loading extension GLX
xinit: connection to X server lost
waiting for X server to shut down XIO: fatal IO error 0 (Success) on X server ":0"
after 554 requests (554 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
xterm: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) or KillClient on X server ":0"
xterm: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) or KillClient on X server ":0"
xterm: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) or KillClient on X server ":0"
Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
xinit: unexpected signal 2
And my Xorg.0.log
[ 4955.478]
X.Org X Server 1.13.0
Release Date: 2012-09-05
[ 4955.479] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 4955.479] Build Operating System: Linux 3.6.0-1-ARCH i686
[ 4955.479] Current Operating System: Linux x_00294-ibc 3.5.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 7 19:33:50 CEST 2012 i686
[ 4955.479] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=ec6a9a60-8d8c-4de0-960b-9e2a044d0ca5 ro quiet
[ 4955.479] Build Date: 05 October 2012 02:01:30PM
[ 4955.479]
[ 4955.479] Current version of pixman: 0.26.2
[ 4955.479] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
[ 4955.479] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 4955.480] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Oct 13 09:26:12 2012
[ 4955.480] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 4955.480] (==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section.
[ 4955.480] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
[ 4955.480] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0)
[ 4955.480] (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[ 4955.481] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
Using a default monitor configuration.
[ 4955.481] (==) Automatically adding devices
[ 4955.481] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[ 4955.481] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[ 4955.481] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/" does not exist.
[ 4955.481] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 4955.481] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist.
[ 4955.481] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 4955.481] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" does not exist.
[ 4955.481] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 4955.481] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/".
[ 4955.481] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 4955.481] (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/").
[ 4955.481] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/".
[ 4955.481] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 4955.481] (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/").
[ 4955.481] (==) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/misc/
[ 4955.481] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[ 4955.481] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
[ 4955.481] (II) Loader magic: 0x825a620
[ 4955.482] (II) Module ABI versions:
[ 4955.482] X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[ 4955.482] X.Org Video Driver: 13.0
[ 4955.482] X.Org XInput driver : 18.0
[ 4955.482] X.Org Server Extension : 7.0
[ 4955.484] (II) config/udev: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
[ 4955.486] (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:3577:1014:0505 rev 4, Mem @ 0x98000000/134217728, 0x90100000/524288
[ 4955.486] (--) PCI: (0:0:2:1) 8086:3577:1014:0505 rev 0, Mem @ 0x88000000/134217728, 0x80200000/524288
[ 4955.486] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[ 4955.486] Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
[ 4955.486] Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
[ 4955.486] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
[ 4955.486] Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
[ 4955.486] Initializing built-in extension XTEST
[ 4955.486] Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS
[ 4955.486] Initializing built-in extension SYNC
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension RENDER
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension RANDR
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension RECORD
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension DPMS
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension X-Resource
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension XVideo
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DGA
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DRI
[ 4955.487] Initializing built-in extension DRI2
[ 4955.487] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 4955.488] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[ 4955.489] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 4955.489] compiled for 1.13.0, module version = 1.0.0
[ 4955.489] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 7.0
[ 4955.489] (==) AIGLX enabled
[ 4955.489] Loading extension GLX
[ 4955.489] (==) Matched intel as autoconfigured driver 0
[ 4955.489] (==) Matched intel as autoconfigured driver 1
[ 4955.489] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 2
[ 4955.489] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 3
[ 4955.489] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 4
[ 4955.489] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
[ 4955.489] (II) LoadModule: "intel"
[ 4955.490] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
[ 4955.491] (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 4955.491] compiled for 1.13.0, module version = 2.20.9
[ 4955.491] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 4955.491] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 13.0
[ 4955.491] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[ 4955.491] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vesa
[ 4955.491] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
[ 4955.492] (II) Unloading vesa
[ 4955.492] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 4955.492] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[ 4955.492] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module modesetting
[ 4955.492] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
[ 4955.492] (II) Unloading modesetting
[ 4955.492] (EE) Failed to load module "modesetting" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 4955.493] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[ 4955.493] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev
[ 4955.493] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
[ 4955.493] (II) Unloading fbdev
[ 4955.493] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 4955.493] (II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets: i810,
i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 854, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G,
E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, Pineview GM, Pineview G,
965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33, GM45,
4 Series, G45/G43, Q45/Q43, G41, B43, B43, Clarkdale, Arrandale,
Sandybridge Desktop (GT1), Sandybridge Desktop (GT2),
Sandybridge Desktop (GT2+), Sandybridge Mobile (GT1),
Sandybridge Mobile (GT2), Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+),
Sandybridge Server, Ivybridge Mobile (GT1), Ivybridge Mobile (GT2),
Ivybridge Desktop (GT1), Ivybridge Desktop (GT2), Ivybridge Server,
Ivybridge Server (GT2), Haswell Desktop (GT1), Haswell Desktop (GT2),
Haswell Desktop (GT2+), Haswell Mobile (GT1), Haswell Mobile (GT2),
Haswell Mobile (GT2+), Haswell Server (GT1), Haswell Server (GT2),
Haswell Server (GT2+), Haswell SDV Desktop (GT1),
Haswell SDV Desktop (GT2), Haswell SDV Desktop (GT2+),
Haswell SDV Mobile (GT1), Haswell SDV Mobile (GT2),
Haswell SDV Mobile (GT2+), Haswell SDV Server (GT1),
Haswell SDV Server (GT2), Haswell SDV Server (GT2+),
Haswell ULT Desktop (GT1), Haswell ULT Desktop (GT2),
Haswell ULT Desktop (GT2+), Haswell ULT Mobile (GT1),
Haswell ULT Mobile (GT2), Haswell ULT Mobile (GT2+),
Haswell ULT Server (GT1), Haswell ULT Server (GT2),
Haswell ULT Server (GT2+), Haswell CRW Desktop (GT1),
Haswell CRW Desktop (GT2), Haswell CRW Desktop (GT2+),
Haswell CRW Mobile (GT1), Haswell CRW Mobile (GT2),
Haswell CRW Mobile (GT2+), Haswell CRW Server (GT1),
Haswell CRW Server (GT2), Haswell CRW Server (GT2+),
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[ 4955.496] (--) using VT number 7
[ 4955.508] (II) intel(0): using device path '/dev/dri/card0'
[ 4955.509] (II) intel(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
"Default Screen Section" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
[ 4955.509] (==) intel(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
[ 4955.509] (==) intel(0): RGB weight 888
[ 4955.509] (==) intel(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[ 4955.509] (--) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) i830M
[ 4955.509] (**) intel(0): Relaxed fencing disabled
[ 4955.509] (**) intel(0): Wait on SwapBuffers? enabled
[ 4955.509] (**) intel(0): Triple buffering? enabled
[ 4955.509] (**) intel(0): Framebuffer tiled
[ 4955.510] (**) intel(0): Pixmaps tiled
[ 4955.510] (**) intel(0): 3D buffers tiled
[ 4955.510] (**) intel(0): SwapBuffers wait enabled
[ 4955.510] (==) intel(0): video overlay key set to 0x101fe
[ 4955.593] (II) intel(0): Output VGA1 has no monitor section
[ 4955.593] (II) intel(0): Output LVDS1 has no monitor section
[ 4955.594] (--) intel(0): found backlight control interface /sys/class/backlight/thinkpad_screen
[ 4955.676] (II) intel(0): EDID for output VGA1
[ 4955.677] (II) intel(0): Printing probed modes for output VGA1
[ 4955.677] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1024x768"x60.0 65.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz e)
[ 4955.677] (II) intel(0): Modeline "800x600"x60.3 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz e)
[ 4955.677] (II) intel(0): Modeline "800x600"x56.2 36.00 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz e)
[ 4955.677] (II) intel(0): Modeline "848x480"x60.0 33.75 848 864 976 1088 480 486 494 517 +hsync +vsync (31.0 kHz e)
[ 4955.677] (II) intel(0): Modeline "640x480"x59.9 25.18 640 656 752 800 480 489 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz e)
[ 4955.677] (II) intel(0): EDID for output LVDS1
[ 4955.677] (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (doublescan mode not supported)
[ 4955.677] (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (doublescan mode not supported)
[ 4955.677] (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (doublescan mode not supported)
[ 4955.677] (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "512x384" (doublescan mode not supported)
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (doublescan mode not supported)
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (doublescan mode not supported)
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (doublescan mode not supported)
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "896x672" (doublescan mode not supported)
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "928x696" (doublescan mode not supported)
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (doublescan mode not supported)
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "700x525" (doublescan mode not supported)
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Printing probed modes for output LVDS1
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1024x768"x60.0 65.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 +hsync +vsync (48.4 kHz P)
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Modeline "1024x768"x60.0 65.00 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync (48.4 kHz d)
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Modeline "800x600"x60.3 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (37.9 kHz d)
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Modeline "800x600"x56.2 36.00 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync (35.2 kHz d)
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Modeline "640x480"x59.9 25.18 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (31.5 kHz d)
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Output VGA1 connected
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Output LVDS1 connected
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Using exact sizes for initial modes
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Output VGA1 using initial mode 1024x768
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Output LVDS1 using initial mode 1024x768
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Using default gamma of (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) unless otherwise stated.
[ 4955.678] (II) intel(0): Kernel page flipping support detected, enabling
[ 4955.678] (==) intel(0): DPI set to (96, 96)
[ 4955.678] (II) Loading sub module "fb"
[ 4955.678] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[ 4955.679] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so
[ 4955.679] (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 4955.679] compiled for 1.13.0, module version = 1.0.0
[ 4955.679] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[ 4955.679] (II) Loading sub module "dri2"
[ 4955.679] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[ 4955.680] (II) Module "dri2" already built-in
[ 4955.680] (==) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
[ 4955.680] (II) intel(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
[ 4955.680] (II) intel(0): [DRI2] DRI driver: i915
[ 4955.680] (II) intel(0): Allocated new frame buffer 1024x768 stride 4096, tiled
[ 4955.680] (II) UXA(0): Driver registered support for the following operations:
[ 4955.680] (II) solid
[ 4955.680] (II) copy
[ 4955.680] (II) composite (RENDER acceleration)
[ 4955.680] (II) put_image
[ 4955.680] (II) get_image
[ 4955.680] (==) intel(0): Backing store disabled
[ 4955.680] (==) intel(0): Silken mouse enabled
[ 4955.681] (II) intel(0): Initializing HW Cursor
[ 4955.681] (II) intel(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled message.
[ 4955.684] (==) intel(0): DPMS enabled
[ 4955.684] (==) intel(0): Intel XvMC decoder disabled
[ 4955.684] (II) intel(0): Set up overlay video
[ 4955.684] (II) intel(0): direct rendering: DRI2 Enabled
[ 4955.684] (==) intel(0): hotplug detection: "enabled"
[ 4955.983] (--) RandR disabled
[ 4956.021] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer
[ 4956.021] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_INTEL_swap_event
[ 4956.021] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_ARB_create_context
[ 4956.021] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_ARB_create_context_profile
[ 4956.021] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile
[ 4956.021] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGI_swap_control and GLX_MESA_swap_control
[ 4956.021] (II) AIGLX: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap backed by buffer objects
[ 4956.021] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized i915
[ 4956.022] (II) GLX: Initialized DRI2 GL provider for screen 0
[ 4956.023] (II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 270 x 203
[ 4956.124] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Power Button (/dev/input/event4)
[ 4956.124] (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 4956.124] (II) LoadModule: "evdev"
[ 4956.124] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[ 4956.125] (II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 4956.125] compiled for 1.13.0, module version = 2.7.3
[ 4956.125] Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[ 4956.125] ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 18.0
[ 4956.125] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
[ 4956.125] (**) Power Button: always reports core events
[ 4956.125] (**) evdev: Power Button: Device: "/dev/input/event4"
[ 4956.126] (--) evdev: Power Button: Vendor 0 Product 0x1
[ 4956.126] (--) evdev: Power Button: Found keys
[ 4956.126] (II) evdev: Power Button: Configuring as keyboard
[ 4956.126] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input4/event4"
[ 4956.126] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Power Button" (type: KEYBOARD, id 6)
[ 4956.126] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 4956.126] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
[ 4956.126] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[ 4956.197] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Video Bus (/dev/input/event2)
[ 4956.198] (**) Video Bus: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 4956.198] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Video Bus'
[ 4956.198] (**) Video Bus: always reports core events
[ 4956.198] (**) evdev: Video Bus: Device: "/dev/input/event2"
[ 4956.198] (--) evdev: Video Bus: Vendor 0 Product 0x6
[ 4956.198] (--) evdev: Video Bus: Found keys
[ 4956.198] (II) evdev: Video Bus: Configuring as keyboard
[ 4956.198] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input2/event2"
[ 4956.198] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Video Bus" (type: KEYBOARD, id 7)
[ 4956.198] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 4956.198] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
[ 4956.198] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[ 4956.200] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Lid Switch (/dev/input/event3)
[ 4956.200] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 4956.200] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[ 4956.201] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Sleep Button (/dev/input/event1)
[ 4956.201] (**) Sleep Button: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 4956.201] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Sleep Button'
[ 4956.202] (**) Sleep Button: always reports core events
[ 4956.202] (**) evdev: Sleep Button: Device: "/dev/input/event1"
[ 4956.202] (--) evdev: Sleep Button: Vendor 0 Product 0x3
[ 4956.202] (--) evdev: Sleep Button: Found keys
[ 4956.202] (II) evdev: Sleep Button: Configuring as keyboard
[ 4956.202] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0E:00/input/input1/event1"
[ 4956.202] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Sleep Button" (type: KEYBOARD, id 8)
[ 4956.202] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 4956.202] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
[ 4956.202] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[ 4956.204] (II) config/udev: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
[ 4956.205] (II) config/udev: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard (/dev/input/event0)
[ 4956.205] (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 4956.205] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'
[ 4956.205] (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: always reports core events
[ 4956.205] (**) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event0"
[ 4956.205] (--) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Vendor 0x1 Product 0x1
[ 4956.205] (--) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Found keys
[ 4956.205] (II) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Configuring as keyboard
[ 4956.205] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0/event0"
[ 4956.205] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD, id 9)
[ 4956.205] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 4956.206] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
[ 4956.206] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[ 4956.208] (II) config/udev: Adding input device TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint (/dev/input/event6)
[ 4956.208] (**) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: Applying InputClass "evdev pointer catchall"
[ 4956.208] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint'
[ 4956.208] (**) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: always reports core events
[ 4956.208] (**) evdev: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: Device: "/dev/input/event6"
[ 4956.208] (--) evdev: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: Vendor 0x2 Product 0xa
[ 4956.208] (--) evdev: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: Found 3 mouse buttons
[ 4956.208] (--) evdev: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: Found relative axes
[ 4956.208] (--) evdev: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: Found x and y relative axes
[ 4956.208] (II) evdev: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: Configuring as mouse
[ 4956.208] (**) evdev: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
[ 4956.208] (**) evdev: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
[ 4956.208] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6/event6"
[ 4956.208] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" (type: MOUSE, id 10)
[ 4956.209] (II) evdev: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: initialized for relative axes.
[ 4956.209] (**) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
[ 4956.209] (**) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: (accel) acceleration profile 0
[ 4956.209] (**) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
[ 4956.209] (**) TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
[ 4956.210] (II) config/udev: Adding input device TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint (/dev/input/mouse0)
[ 4956.210] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 4956.210] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[ 4956.211] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PC Speaker (/dev/input/event5)
[ 4956.211] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[ 4956.211] (II) This device may have been added with another device file.
[ 4956.213] (II) config/udev: Adding input device ThinkPad Extra Buttons (/dev/input/event7)
[ 4956.213] (**) ThinkPad Extra Buttons: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 4956.213] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'ThinkPad Extra Buttons'
[ 4956.213] (**) ThinkPad Extra Buttons: always reports core events
[ 4956.213] (**) evdev: ThinkPad Extra Buttons: Device: "/dev/input/event7"
[ 4956.214] (--) evdev: ThinkPad Extra Buttons: Vendor 0x1014 Product 0x5054
[ 4956.214] (--) evdev: ThinkPad Extra Buttons: Found keys
[ 4956.214] (II) evdev: ThinkPad Extra Buttons: Configuring as keyboard
[ 4956.214] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/input/input7/event7"
[ 4956.214] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "ThinkPad Extra Buttons" (type: KEYBOARD, id 11)
[ 4956.214] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 4956.214] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
[ 4956.214] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[ 4960.630] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
[ 4964.186] (II) evdev: ThinkPad Extra Buttons: Close
[ 4964.189] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[ 4964.189] (II) evdev: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint: Close
[ 4964.189] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[ 4964.189] (II) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Close
[ 4964.189] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[ 4964.189] (II) evdev: Sleep Button: Close
[ 4964.189] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[ 4964.189] (II) evdev: Video Bus: Close
[ 4964.190] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[ 4964.190] (II) evdev: Power Button: Close
[ 4964.190] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
[ 4964.192] Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

karol wrote:
Leonid.I wrote:@0x001A4:
To run twm, you need to install xorg-twm from [extra] (I am not sure if it installs by default). Do you have xterm installed?
According to his first post he has both xorg-twm and xterm installed.
I do indeed.
I went ahead and installed LXDE anyways, just to see what would happen. Exact same thing, it looks like everything is about to load but only the mouse cursor shows up. My Xorg.0.log is the same, so I won't post it again.
I do get an error in the console about the openbox menu.xml file missing but I doubt that's related.
X.Org X Server 1.13.0
Release Date: 2012-09-05
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.6.0-1-ARCH i686
Current Operating System: Linux x_00294-ibc 3.5.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 7 19:33:50 CEST 2012 i686
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=ec6a9a60-8d8c-4de0-960b-9e2a044d0ca5 ro quiet
Build Date: 05 October 2012 02:01:30PM
Current version of pixman: 0.26.2
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Oct 15 18:12:28 2012
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
Initializing built-in extension XTEST
Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS
Initializing built-in extension SYNC
Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC
Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
Initializing built-in extension RENDER
Initializing built-in extension RANDR
Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
Initializing built-in extension RECORD
Initializing built-in extension DPMS
Initializing built-in extension X-Resource
Initializing built-in extension XVideo
Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DGA
Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DRI
Initializing built-in extension DRI2
Loading extension GLX
Openbox-Message: Unable to find a valid menu file "/usr/share/lxde/openbox/menu.xml"
xinit: connection to X server lost
waiting for X server to shut down pcmanfm: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
after 2326 requests (2323 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
xinit: unexpected signal 2
.xinitrc for my user
exec ck-launch-session startlxde
Very wierd.

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