Well, I broke one of my MX linux boxes last week and it has been a slow and painful spiral down to the bottom of the toilet trying to fix it. Essentially, after some updates and getting retroarch to work, when I rebooted the machine, I got a black desktop that would flash between that and the splash screen. Ok so x was failing but why? Interestingly wifi connectivity died too. Anyways, I then got into grub+e, removed no splash and was watching the os load when I noticed user accounsservices daemon was failing so I decided to try and reinstall some core services like lightdm etc. THEN it was telling me that somehow ownership was through my admin account and not root and it wouldnt let me dl updates ... omg so then I jump down the rabbit hole of trying to fix
that mess which ultimately I was able to reestablish downloading and reinstalling files via cli but reinstalling those core system files did not fix my whacko screen issue. I then broke down and decided to not use nouveau driver which works perfectly on every other machine I use MX on and decided to build legacy 340xx driver. That took about 15 minutes and I pointed the install to use this driver ... and then the screen went totally black with no cursor so yeah, that made everything worse LOL. With my tail between my legs, I grabbed my MX USB stick, wiped this giant pita (gave myself a bit more room for my home folder this time) and reinstalled fresh MX and guess what?
Everything is working fine. Ive been using MX for quite a while at this point with 100% stability and no issues until now. It still has to be something I did to it because one of my other boxes would be exibiting similar issues and they're all absolutely fine. The cuddy part is I cant figure out what I did haha. Oh well, dems da breaks LOL.
