VMWare machines and failed Gnome displays
I have three VMWare machines hosted in a Windows partition. I have had Pop! and Debian for nearly 2 years, and recently installed GhostBSD (thanks, Neville!). Just this week, a similar problem hit both Pop! and Debian. The screen is blank, the cursor shimmers between a pointed finger and an arrow, and the keyboard does little. In both cases, I tried recovery, booting to different kernels, etc. Debian seems to jam at the Gnome Display Manager; it freezes for about 20 seconds and the letters on…
