Re: gdm does not start; lost networking

2013-04-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 12:35 -0400, Chris Fisichella wrote: > Okay, thanks for the help. > > I went to the Debian Squeeze package page for gdm3 and looked for the > X11 dependencies. I used them in an apt-get install --reinstall > command as follows: > > apt-get install --reinstall libx11-6 li

Re: gdm does not start; lost networking

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Fisichella
Ralf Mardorf : That's the culprit: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2389): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: Error enumerating temporary authorizations: Remote Exception invoking org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority.EnumerateTemporaryAuthorizations() on /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority

Re: gdm does not start; lost networking

2013-04-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
That's the culprit: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2389): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: Error enumerating temporary authorizations: Remote Exception invoking org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Authority.EnumerateTemporaryAuthorizations() on /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/Authority at name org.freedesktop.

Re: gdm does not start; lost networking

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Fisichella
Hi Ralf, Thanks for the debugging help. That makes sense about X being a little messed up, since I was installing X libraries last night. I'll attach the output to those commands. I am seeing X-type errors in .xsession-errors. This, in particular I think is the smoking gun: (polkit-gnome

Re: gdm does not start; lost networking

2013-04-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
As root run /etc/init.d/network-manager start I'm using network-manager, but I also can run a script and connect to the Internet without network manager. I can't explain how to do this for Debian, since regarding to systemd's device naming even eth0 became an obscure name for my Linux. "start" i

gdm does not start; lost networking

2013-04-09 Thread Chris Fisichella
I thought I had a good system. I was installing software from tarballs and putting them in /usr/local/. That worked well. Yesterday, I tried to install various versions of pcb-20110918. Among the commands I executed were sudo apt-get install libglw1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev libgtkglext-dev

Re: gdm does not start

2008-05-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 00:31:31 +0200, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > Hi! > > I have set up debian sid to use gdm for graphical login. But: gdm > just does not start if called from startup scripts. There is no > problem if gdm ist started by root. Just "/etc/init.d/gdm start" > does not work inany way

gdm does not start

2008-05-23 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Hi! I have set up debian sid to use gdm for graphical login. But: gdm just does not start if called from startup scripts. There is no problem if gdm ist started by root. Just "/etc/init.d/gdm start" does not work inany way. Any hint welcome! -- Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: gdm does not start

2006-04-16 Thread j j
Minaev wrote:> After a power failure (not necessarily *because* of it, though), gdm> does not start anymore. It starts the X server but does not give the > login window, then it closes X and attempts to start once again. At> last, gdm gives the following message: "The display ser

Re: gdm does not start

2006-04-15 Thread Antonio Paiva
Seems the power failure disrupted your file system. Try to re-install the X server and font packages. Antonio Dmitri Minaev wrote: After a power failure (not necessarily *because* of it, though), gdm does not start anymore. It starts the X server but does not give the login window, then it

gdm does not start

2006-04-13 Thread Dmitri Minaev
After a power failure (not necessarily *because* of it, though), gdm does not start anymore. It starts the X server but does not give the login window, then it closes X and attempts to start once again. At last, gdm gives the following message: "The display server has been shut down about 6

Re: GDM does not start on Woody (was: Help!)

2004-10-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Tech4rce microsystems (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm a linux newbie, and having problems installing Debian "woody". > I go through the installation procedure (no problem there), I check > the boxes for "X window system, Desktop system, and C -C+ ( should be > basic enough I think). Tha

gdm does not start gdmchooser ?!

1999-08-24 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello List After installing a new version of gdm (1.0.0-9) I have a problem. When it starts, I see the gray X root window and a mouse but nothing more happens. A ps gives the following output: 276 ? S0:00 /usr/sbin/gdm 283 ? S0:01 \_ /usr/bin/X11/X -auth /var/state/gdm/authdir/