On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 09:44:21AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > 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. > System is an HP Compaq dx2250 microtower about 8 years old I think. It was my daughter's microsoft home office computer which she replaced last year. I took out her sata drives, installed one of my own and installed jessie. Boot up and all the settings and programs I tried worked perfectly including gdm3 and the gnome desktop.
I created the display problem. The HP box has only vga, no hdmi so I experimented with the settings and chose an incompatable one resulting in a black screen. I created a second user, tom2, and the display opened normally for tom2. To recover my initial work I ran rsync -r --stats /home/tom/ /home/tom2. All my data was recovered but on reboot the display wouldn't open for either tom or tom2. Not wishing to create tom3 I tried installing xdm. There was some problem with that so restarted gdm3 with the following result. > > 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. > Reinstall would certainly cure all my mistakes. Before doing that I found xdm works but only allows me to log in as root and then brings up the gnome desktop with all the installed programs. I can live with this until I find out how to correct systemctl's problem with gdm3. Tom > B > > > -- > 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/20150208094421.6f345...@debian7.boseck208.net > > -- 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/20150208204214.ga24...@tomgeorge.info
