Hi Thomas On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 01:02:02AM -0400, B Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Debian/Etch. My system crashed while using gnome and > imagemagick. After a hard reboot I find I am unable to launch > any window manager (be it kde gnome or fvwm).
How do you (or did you) launch your X session? Using a display manager (xdm, gdm, ...) or from the command line with startx? > All I see > is a grey background with a functioning cursor. No matter > what I put in my ~/.xinitrc this is the result. This doesn't > seem to be a hardware problem as I replaced the video card > and it made no difference. Besides if I boot from a live > linux cd (INSERT security/rescue toolkit) the window manager > works just fine. > > I even tried putting in older video cards lying > around (first ATI Rage pro and now Matorx G200). > Also I reinstalled the x-window-system* > and x11proto* packages (of Debian/Etch). I have > made no cutomisations to the Xwindows system or > the Window Managers. This is a standard Debian/Etch > official distribution. > > Would be grateful for any suggestions you can make. > > regards > thomas regards -- Joachim Fahnenmüller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
