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