On Friday 04 March 2011 11:41:47 Lisi wrote: > On Friday 04 March 2011 11:27:33 Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Vi, 04 mar 11, 10:33:45, Lisi wrote: > > > I have just (for the first time in years) installed a default install > > > of Squeeze. > > > > > > It starts up in the command line. No sign of X. This deos not cause > > > me a problem, since I was doing it just to see what happened. But I > > > can see that it would cause problems to newbies. There is obviously a > > > bug. > > > > unreproducible ;) > > > > I did an install a few days ago and Gnome came up just fine. Was Gnome > > even installed (look for package gnome-session)? Any errors during the > > install? .... > > As I said, I just did a default install, which should indeed have have > installed and configured GNOME. I was only having a quick look to see what > happened (for that standard install business). I haven't enough interest > to trouble-shoot. I just thought it was worth mentioning that when I did a > default install it showed the same problem as the OP met. > > I have installed Squeeze several times without mishap since 6th February, > but I don't usually accept the defaults for everything!
There seems to be a hardware problem with the box I was using. :-( Hence presumably the bad install. Sorry. :-( But one of the successful installs was on this same box. :-/ Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201103041214.12595.lisi.re...@gmail.com