Re: Cannot load GNOME under Sarge

[Jim Seymour <bluejay@speedfactory.net>]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 08:30:33AM +0100, Francesco Marchetti-Stasi wrote:
>  Jim Seymour wrote:
> 
> > Oh yeah.....many reboots while trying to log into GNOME :-) It is the
> > only way I know to get out of the failed attempt.
> 
> ? Why? Doesn't <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<Backspace> restart X11? Doesn't
> "/etc/init.d/gdm restart" (OR kdm, OR wdm, I don't know which session
> manager you use) restart the graphic console?
> IF you really cannot restart it (which I find hard to believe), then have
> also a look at the kernel log messages, "dmesg | less". The only valid
> reasons I ever had to reboot a Linux machine are kernel bugs, and faulty
> hardware (or poorly supported hardware, but I regard this as a linear
> combination of the other two :)
> Francesco.

Hi Francesco,

	Thanks for those suggestions. I did not know about those 
commands to get back to the graphical login. Will try them on the nest 
attempt.

Thanks,

Jim Seymour