Mark Simos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> I am messing around with debian 2.2 in a VMware window in my win2k box, MS> so it is all in vga mode and that is cool with me. i do have a weird MS> problem going on though... MS> MS> when i install a window manager (xdm, gdm, etc.):
(ObNitpick: that's a *display* manager. A *window* manager is a program like twm, fvwm, AfterStep, Enlightenment, Sawfish, &c. that puts "decorations" like title bars and borders on windows.) MS> it prompts me for user/pass at boot. MS> I enter it. MS> it prompts me for user/pass MS> I enter it MS> it prompts me for user pass Hmm. Can you log in from a text console? If so, the problem might be in your X login scripts; check what gets run out of $HOME/.xsession, that that file is executable, and so forth. Are any informative error messages left in $HOME/.xsession-errors? Does typing 'startx' from your text console work? (You might need to stop your display manager ['/etc/init.d/xdm stop' as root] and/or use 'startx -- :1' to get a different X display.) MS> you get the idea, it loops. this happens regardless of root or my MS> account. I have no clue what would cause this to happen. I can usually MS> do a ctrl-alt-backspace and a quick alt-f2 that will get me to another MS> text box and let me reboot or uninstall the package, but it sucks that i MS> can't use a window manager You can switch to a text console with Ctrl+Alt+Fn for 1<=n<=6 from X, without killing the X server. Ctrl+Alt+F7 will get you back to the X login screen. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
