After upgrade to 14.2, I cannot go from X to a virtual console
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2025 23:38:53 UTC
Dear Sirs and Madams! I just upgraded from 14.0 to 14.2 my Asus E35M1-I: https://www.asus.com/supportonly/e35m1i/helpdesk_manual/ As always, it took many hours, perhaps 4 or 5 with freebsd-update, and as very frequently, I ended with a broken system. This time not so broken that I cannot use firefox or write Email for asking for help. I normally boot in a virtual console and start X after login as normal user (Xorg with +s permission). And this was successful. The problem is that I cannot get back to the console, neither with Control-Alt-F1 nor with terminating X. When I do it, I end with a black screen. This means, I cannot see console messages, including those in the shutdown process. For my feeling a very ugly issue, enough to think about leaving FreeBSD. /var/log/Xorg.0.log indicates that X ends without problem. And typing "shutdown -h now" on the black screen does shutdown the system. Any hint how I can solve the problem? Thanks in advance Rod.