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Determine which xscreensaver "hack" is crashing your chroot

Crouton Geek edited this page Feb 5, 2019 · 2 revisions

This project may not be worth your time, but here goes. Open up xscreensaver, and just go down the list. Click Preview on each one. Particular screensavers will crash your chroot almost instantly, and you will have to get back to ChromeOS. Try this:

  1. Shift-Ctrl-Alt-F1 (left arrow)
  2. Ctrl-Alt-F2 (right arrow)
  3. Ctrl-Alt-F1 (left arrow)

Now restart your chroot, if possible. If not, you may have to reboot. Anyhow, go back into your xscreensaver and uncheck the activation box for the "bad" hack.

It may be easier to choose just a single screensaver, or blank screen, or disable xscreensaver, or uninstall it.

Thanks, James

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