I have a very odd problem that happened to me twice since I clean installed Kali Linux V2.0 a month ago.
Both times I handled the problem by clean installing the OS again.
I looked it up online for hours but couldn't find any solution for the problem or any issue similar to what I had.
What I experienced was a freezing at the login page.
This occurred after I shutdown the system with the power button. The shutdown procedure was stuck for some reason and eating my CPU (according to the fan speed and heat).
I reopened the laptop and booted into Linux, but this time all the data that was being displayed on the screen while booting was in a different font size. After that I got to the login page again, with a different resolution, the system froze, I couldn't move the mouse, use the keyboard etc.
Again … CPU was working hard according to noise of the fan.
I also tried to get a shell command using the ctr+alt+f2 but no luck..
I haven't installed any custom driver or any program the can cause the problem.
I'm using Sony Vaio z45gd laptop
Kernal : 4.0.0-kali1-686-pae
CPU: Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU P9700 @ 2.80GHz × 2
I have 2 hard drives. Linux is installed on Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB (EXT0CB6Q)
I'm using Grub to choose what to boot, (the second boot OS is windows 7).
Graphics: Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset x86/MMX/SSE2
BIOS Information
Vendor: INSYDE
Version: R4043M3
Release Date: 08/24/2009
ROM Size: 1536 kB
Characteristics:
PCI is supported
PNP is supported
BIOS is upgradeable
BIOS shadowing is allowed
Boot from CD is supported
Selectable boot is supported
EDD is supported
8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
ACPI is supported
USB legacy is supported
Smart battery is supported
BIOS boot specification is supported
Function key-initiated network boot is supported
Targeted content distribution is supported
BIOS Revision: 40.43
Firmware Revision: 40.43
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Best Answer
i am just assuming you get graphical error, as i froze last time that i used nvidia graphic.
did you configure your graphic to be such nvidia, or others? in driver manager before this error?
but first thing, to go go the terminal while in the black screen try to use ctrl+alt+ f1-f6, just try all of them until you get into one of them, cause you onyly posted using ctrl+alt+f2 which it didnt work. So try again and see what happens.
secondly, try to remove your graphical diplay by using , for example sudo apt-get purge nvidia*. -> nvidia* means purging all of the nvidia components. then reinstall then using, for example sudo apt-get install nvidia-current-updates.
finally restart your PC.
point to be noted, sometimes when you are in the terminal, you are not automatically connected to the internet, using nmcli d wifi connect [name of your SSID] password [your password] wlan0 .