crouton: Samsung Chromebook Plus - startxfce4 causes reboot
Please paste the output of the following command here: sudo edit-chroot -all ``name: xenial encrypted: no Entering /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/xenial… crouton: version 1-20170315143304~master:95589555 release: xenial architecture: arm64 xmethod: xorg targets: x11,xfce,touch,keyboard,extension host: version 9413.0.0 (Official Build) dev-channel kevin kernel: Linux localhost 4.4.52-07972-gf27275748d2d #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Mar 29 19:03:23 PDT 2017 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux freon: yes Unmounting /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots/xenial…`
Please describe your issue:
Previously working system reduced to black screen and reboot when X11 needed to run.
If known, describe the steps to reproduce the issue:
Previous to this Google update my chromebook plus was working with xenial and xfce. Following the update, issuing the command “sudo startxfce4” causes a non-recoverable black screen proceeded about 30 seconds later by a reboot. I have tried power washing, re-installing xenial, as well as using different distros and targets - trusty, precise and zesty: same result. “startcli” works suggesting X11 problem. I see other issues with X11 but no one has reported a reboot.
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- State: closed
- Created 7 years ago
- Comments: 19
Yes, xiwi works. I had to manually install xserver-xorg-core and xserver-xorg-video-dummy first or xiwi would fail to install.
@rbutera Very new to this, how did you manually install the two packages?
UPDATE: figured it out.
Thanks.
@cd109876,
Thanx for trying ‘xiwi’ and reporting your results. It’s not a perfect solution but it may be a workaround until the issue can be fixed at least. Unfortunately, I don’t have a SCB+ so I can’t troubleshoot it but maybe the devs or others can find a way.
Hope this helps, -DennisL