On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 02:00:38AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 04 mar 11, 15:38:32, Freeman wrote: > > > > then, at the root prompt, type > > > > GDM3 > > > > If that doesn't work, maybe you have an older version of Debian, so type > > > > GDM > > $ apt-file search bin/GDM > $
Yes, I rushed and those caps came flying into my head from somewhere and I typed them mindlessly. > > (I have lenny, squeeze, wheezy and sid in my sources.list) > > Even in lower-case, I doubt it's a good ideea to run gdm/gdm3 "by hand", > but rather via the init script: > > /etc/init.d/gdm start > /etc/init.d/gdm3 start > > But this is already done on boot if gdm is installed, so the problem > must be somewhere else. Without any evidence I would assume the most > common to be: > > - the Desktop task was unselected by mistake during the install > - problems starting X, but at least gdm (no idea about gdm3) would have > presented the user with a more or less helpful error message. > - problems installing packages (but in our case the OP got as far as the > login prompt, so I would exclude it) > You are right about the error message too. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- 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/20110305000848.GB15594@Deneb.office
