Re: GDM and gnome session malfunction

2009-05-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,04.May.09, 14:21:38, JoeHill wrote: > > Still, I'd like to know how to start Gnome from text mode, for future :-\ The Debian Way (tm) is: (as root) update-alternatives --config x-session-manager and chose gnome-session (or whatever it's called) (as user) startx Both Xfce and KDE also

Re: GDM and gnome session malfunction

2009-05-04 Thread JoeHill
Brent Clark wrote: > Paul Scott wrote: > > > > There should be a gdm log somewhere. > > > > Paul > > > > Or start gdm but yourself and see if you get anything from STDOUT or STDERR > > /usr/sbin/gdm --nodaemon That got me goin'... Turns out during the update, gdm got removed? Hmmm. Anyway,

Re: GDM and gnome session malfunction

2009-04-30 Thread Brent Clark
Paul Scott wrote: There should be a gdm log somewhere. Paul Or start gdm but yourself and see if you get anything from STDOUT or STDERR /usr/sbin/gdm --nodaemon HTH Regards Brent Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: GDM and gnome session malfunction

2009-04-30 Thread Paul Scott
JoeHill wrote: Paul Scott wrote: JoeHill wrote: Hi there, Massive update last night, went really really well, so far just one small issue so I'm happy. (snip) I can totally do without GDM, but what is the proper invocation of Gnome these days? What do your logs s

Re: GDM and gnome session malfunction

2009-04-29 Thread JoeHill
Paul Scott wrote: > JoeHill wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Massive update last night, went really really well, so far just one small > > issue so I'm happy. > > > > When I logged out and back in, GDM went haywire and could not start. There > > was an error, but it was up on the screen and gone too

Re: GDM and gnome session malfunction

2009-04-29 Thread Paul Scott
JoeHill wrote: Hi there, Massive update last night, went really really well, so far just one small issue so I'm happy. When I logged out and back in, GDM went haywire and could not start. There was an error, but it was up on the screen and gone too quickly for me to remember. It kept trying, so

GDM and gnome session malfunction

2009-04-29 Thread JoeHill
Hi there, Massive update last night, went really really well, so far just one small issue so I'm happy. When I logged out and back in, GDM went haywire and could not start. There was an error, but it was up on the screen and gone too quickly for me to remember. It kept trying, so I managed to ge