Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 12:49 PM, Hans wrote: > > Did you try to dpkg-reconfigure gdm? I did, but it failed as there is nothing installed as gdm no longer exists in jessie apparently, just gdm3 > > You might try to force the configuration by reconfiguring an

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Hans
Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2014, 12:21:49 schrieb Joris Bolsens: > On 12/23/2014 11:40 AM, Floris wrote: > > maybe you can manually set the display manager to gdm3 > > > > edit "/etc/X11/default-display-manager" to: > > > > /usr/sbin/gdm3 > > That did the trick, it was set to /usr/bin/gdm3 > Any

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 11:40 AM, Floris wrote: > > maybe you can manually set the display manager to gdm3 > > edit "/etc/X11/default-display-manager" to: > > /usr/sbin/gdm3 > That did the trick, it was set to /usr/bin/gdm3 Any idea why dpkg and apt could

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Floris
Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:38:00 +0100 schreef Joris Bolsens : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 10:32 AM, Floris wrote: just to be sure: apt-get update apt-get purge kdm $ sudo apt-get purge kdm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state i

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 10:37 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > dpkg-reconfigure gdm $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm dpkg-query: package 'gdm' is not installed and no information is available Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 10:32 AM, Floris wrote: > just to be sure: > > apt-get update apt-get purge kdm $ sudo apt-get purge kdm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package 'kdm' is not installed, so not re

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Floris
Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:37:13 +0100 schreef Lisi Reisz : On Tuesday 23 December 2014 18:14:00 Joris Bolsens wrote: On 12/23/2014 10:07 AM, Floris wrote: > Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:58:48 +0100 schreef Joris Bolsens > : > > Is it Gnome that fails to start or gdm? Not sure what the difference is (

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 23 December 2014 18:14:00 Joris Bolsens wrote: > On 12/23/2014 10:07 AM, Floris wrote: > > Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:58:48 +0100 schreef Joris Bolsens > > : > > > > Is it Gnome that fails to start or gdm? > > Not sure what the difference is (sorry). > When the system starts I get multiple m

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Floris
Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 19:14:00 +0100 schreef Joris Bolsens : On 12/23/2014 10:07 AM, Floris wrote: Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:58:48 +0100 schreef Joris Bolsens : Is it Gnome that fails to start or gdm? Not sure what the difference is (sorry). When the system starts I get multiple messages alon

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 12/23/2014 10:07 AM, Floris wrote: > Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:58:48 +0100 schreef Joris Bolsens : > > Is it Gnome that fails to start or gdm? > Not sure what the difference is (sorry). When the system starts I get multiple messages along the lines of "Gnome Display Manager [FAILED]". startx gi

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Floris
Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:58:48 +0100 schreef Joris Bolsens : I've restarted multiple times, every time Gnome fails to start and i have to use `startx` to get a working UI, but I am still missing things like the gnome lockscreen/screensaver. Is it Gnome that fails to start or gdm? success, f

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 12/22/2014 10:31 PM, Go Linux wrote: > > Recent discussion (on the Devuan list) mentioned dbus requires a reboot to > restart. Perhaps startx also needs a reboot? Welcome to the world of systemd > - determined to complicate your computing life. Note that Gnome is > terminally infected w

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Go Linux
On Tue, 12/23/14, Jean-Marc wrote: Subject: Re: gnome wont start To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2014, 3:41 AM Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:09:21 -0800 Joris Bolsens écrivait : > PS unfortunately, there are mentions of systemd in your mail; I think it will &

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Jean-Marc
Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:09:21 -0800 Joris Bolsens écrivait : > Hello all, hi Joris, > I recently ran into a problem with Gnome. > It fails to start at all. I am able to get a working ui by using the > startx command, and it seems like it is a gnomish environment (windows > key brings up the Activit

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-22 Thread Go Linux
On Mon, 12/22/14, Joris Bolsens wrote: Subject: gnome wont start To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, December 22, 2014, 9:09 PM [snip] $ sudo systemctl status gdm.service ● gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; enabled) Active: