On Sat, 07 Feb 2015, Thomas H. George 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:

What display problems?  You don't say exactly.  Also.  What's the specs
on your system?  How old is it?  Etc.

> 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?

Yes.  Reinstall, expert mode.  So, you can see what the installer is
choosing to install.

Try just a terminal only install and see if that works.  X could be the
problem.

B


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