Re: Blank blue screen after logging into an account for the first time with gdm and choosing window manager

2010-08-19 Thread Daniel Trebbien
I have a few more questions: > > Is there anything in `.xsession-errors`? (This file is in the home > > directory of the account that you are logged in as.) > > I haven't checked there, actually, but I'll look. Did you see anything in this file? Does the problem still occur if you bring the net

Re: Blank blue screen after logging into an account for the first time with gdm and choosing window manager

2010-08-17 Thread Daniel Trebbien
> When I bring my HP Mini 100 netbook out of standby, the screen flickers > on occassion, and then at some random moment in time, it seems, it will > go to a blank blue screen. The session is still active. I can SSH to the > netbook, and I can change TTYs to a virtual TTY (although the screen > rem

Re: Blank blue screen after logging into an account for the first time with gdm & choosing window manager

2010-08-14 Thread Daniel Trebbien
> So why didn't Nautilus start after I selected a window manager? I figured it out. For some reason, the X session manager was set to `/usr/bin/choosewm` by default when it needed to be `/usr/bin/gnome-session`. I corrected this with: sudo update-alternatives --config x-session-manager -- To

Blank blue screen after logging into an account for the first time with gdm & choosing window manager

2010-08-14 Thread Daniel Trebbien
On one of my computers, running Debian Squeeze, I have two user accounts. One has been used exclusively for running Nautilus and GNOME applications. The other has been used exclusively over SSH. At start-up, gdm automatically logs into the "graphical" account, but today I decided that I wanted to u

Re: Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread Daniel Trebbien
> I have been seeing problem with X not starting properly without using> startx. you may want to give that a try.> also you may want to check the /var/log directory for Xorg.log and> gdm.log (?).Running `sudo startx` appears to have the same effect as when `gdm` is starting;  I see a black scre

Re: Re: After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-04 Thread Daniel Trebbien
> What version of gdm is this?2.20.10-1

After recent upgrade, starting gdm shows "black" screen

2010-04-03 Thread Daniel Trebbien
I recently upgraded my Toshiba Satellite L45-S7409, running Debian testing (Squeeze). This morning when I started my laptop, the computer booted and I was able to use my GNOME desktop as usual. This afternoon, however, when I started my laptop, the screen went "black" a short moment after I saw: