On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 10:02:15PM +0000, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 7 Feb 2015 16:37:23 -0500 > "Thomas H. George" <li...@tomgeorge.info> wrote: > > > OK, my fault. > > > > A new jessie installation. Display problem so I tried to switch to > > xdm. When this didn't work I tried to switch back to gdm3. No Go: > > > > gdm3.serviceJob for gdm.service failed. > > > > Looked for solution in man systemctl, found reset-failed command. > > Tried > > > > systemctl reset-failed gdm.service > > > > exit code was 0 but problem was not fixed. > > > > tried apt-get install --reinstall gdm3 > > > > problem not fixed. > > > > What to do? Reinstall jessie? Continue experimenting with systemctl > > commands? > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > > > My first action would be to install kdm. It will bring a heap of > dependencies, but if that's a problem it can be sorted out once you're > running again. On installation, you should be offered the choice of DM, > and a clean kdm should work OK.
Tried this, desktop window failed to open afer installation. Tried /etc/init.d/kdm restart and got a message that kdm.service failed. Same thing happened with xdm, xdm.service failed. > You can switch between default DMs from the command line if necessary, > by editing /etc/X11/default-display-manager. > With wheezy I did this all the time. It does switch display-managers ok, but they don't start with ?dm.service failed. > I'd probably then try a purge of gdm3 then a reinstall. If that still > doesn't work, you should have some more information to bring back here. > If kdm didn't work either, along with gdm3 and xdm, that probably > points to something lower-level, such as an X issue. > Couldn't purge gdm3 (unspecified dependencies). apt-get install --reinstall gdm3 works but failes to solve the problem. dependencies? > -- > Joe > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmaster@lists.:wdebian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/20150207220215.6a8df...@jresid.jretrading.com > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150207235216.ga26...@tomgeorge.info
