Re: can not launch any window manager

Hi Thomas On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 01:02:02AM -0400, B Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Debian/Etch. My system crashed while using gnome and > imagemagick. After a hard reboot I find I am unable to launch > any window manager (be it kde gnome or fvwm). How do you (or did you) launch your X sess

Re: can not launch any window manager -- solved

Thank you for all your help. It turned out that reinstalling libxdmcp6 solved the problem. Apparently this library must have got corrupted during the hard boot. Are there any utilities in debian that will scan all files and report which are corrupted ? regards b thomas On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at

Re: can not launch any window manager

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:02:02 -0400, B Thomas wrote: > functioning cursor. No matter what I put in my ~/.xinitrc this is the Feel free to post your ~/.xinitrc Have you modified any files in /etc/X11 ? By default, even if all else fails, you should be presented with at least one term window. Wh

Re: can not launch any window manager

On 08/14/2007 01:02 AM, B Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Debian/Etch. My system crashed while using gnome and > imagemagick. After a hard reboot I find I am unable to launch > any window manager (be it kde gnome or fvwm). All I see > is a grey background with a functioning cursor. No matter >