Re: After upgrade to 14.2, I cannot go from X to a virtual console

Hello,

I'm assuming from the message that your X session runs without issues.
Drivers, etc, all work, no error log messages, etc.

> I normally boot in a virtual console and start X after login as
> normal user (Xorg with +s permission). And this was successful.

I'm a little surprised that you have to set the sticky bit for Xorg to
work. Do you manually set this up in your installation? Doesn't plain
`startx` with vanilla Xorg install as your normal user work without it?

(I might not remember everything correctly here, but AFAIK you don't
need to explicitly set this up, and one of the biggest reasons to run a
graphical environment directly from console via startx is precisely to
*avoid* running Xorg - a program that by design can "see" a lot of other
processes' stuff - as root.)

> /var/log/Xorg.0.log indicates that X ends without problem. And typing
> "shutdown -h now"
> on the black screen does shutdown the system.

Does either Ctrl+C (terminating anything holding back the process) or
Ctrl+D (exiting the shell) work for you here? Since you can type the
command, it might be a problem that the cursor itself isn't returned,
something that happens, for example, when a TUI application exits
uncleanly. Exiting the shell might fix this. 

Another thing: instead of starting Xorg via `startx`, try starting it
with `exec startx`. This will ensure that startx will fork away from
your shell and the shell will exit as soon as Xorg terminates (either
cleanly or through error), in principle dropping you right back to the
console login prompt where you started.

If the console upon return is broken or jumbled up, it might be a
driver issue (happened to me once that Console broke, but X was fine),
in which case someone more knowledgeable can chip in.

Best of luck,

Vitor S
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