Installation problem

[Mike Jonas]

Thanks for replying. "m/c" is just "machine" (that's what we called a 
computer 20+ years ago). The problem has now gone away, but I didn't do 
anything to make it go away - which makes me nervous that it could 
return. I haven't tried your suggestions re 'xorg.conf' and 
'Ctrl-Alt-F2' but I'll try them if restart fails again. - Mike.



On 4/07/2017 9:35 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Mike Jonas composed on 2017-07-04 09:00 (UTC+1000):
>
>> Acer Aspire S 13 ... Mint 18.1 ...
> What is "M/C"? I don't see any such reference on
> https://www.cnet.com/products/acer-aspire-s-13/specs/
> and don't remember seeing it refer to anything other than Midnight Commander on
> any version of Linux.
>
> xorg -configure is an anachronism. It almost never will fix anything, and IME
> more often it will create additional impediments to finding solutions. Deleting
> or renaming the xorg.conf file it created should precede further attempts to
> diagnose.
>
> If when you are looking at a black screen and key in "Ctrl-Alt-F2", does the
> screen un-black to a login prompt?
>
> "Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-53-generic
> root=UUID=5cba3833-f404-4f25-b775-2f750ad191b6 ro recovery nomodeset"
>
> is an emergency/recovery cmdline. Whatever you did to cause use of nomodeset
> will prevent the Intel Xorg and the Modeset Xorg video drivers to be unusable,
> either of which is prerequisite to a usable modern X Server, hence the
> X server is now disabled..." message you get.