Black Console at System Reboot/Shutdown

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Symptom:

When you switch to one of the consoles (CTRL+ALT+F1-F6) from a running X server, the console is black. Furthermore, the screen is also black when you shutdown/reboot the system, but you can hear the "peep" that usually accompanies the system shutdown.

Cause:

The cause is an error in the package pam_devperm. This problem arises when the nvidia module is launched as the user, after having properly finished the graphical session, tries to change to a text console by using the login manager XDM and KDM with Nvidia graphics cards.

Solution:

Two approaches are possible:

1st approach

2nd approach


Keywords: CONSOLE, BLACK, NVIDIA, XSERVER, XFREE86, GRAPHIC, LOGIN, TEXT

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