Re: no KDE after stand by
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:51:50AM +0200, ben van 't ende [netcreators] wrote :
> Brice Méalier wrote:
> >On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 09:41:19PM +0200, ben van 't ende [netcreators]
> >wrote :
> >
> >>Hi List,
> >>
> >>After returning to my laptop today it looked like it had gone into some
> >>kind of stand-by. That never happened before. Maybe I never paused that
> >>long before ;-) Anyway after rebooting (I got some error message saying
> >>something went wrong. Didn't pay much attention to it as my Debian never
> >>fails me :-( ) I san't boot into KDE anymore. I can only access the
> >>shell. That looks pretty much ok to me. What has happened here and how
> >>can I fix that and in the future prevent it?
> >>
> >>gRTZ
> >>
> >>ben
> >>
> >
> >
> >Try to have a look a ~/.xsession-errors if present or look at the log
> >files in /var/log/
> >
> >X starts correctly, isn't it?
> >
> >The ultimate solution is:
> >
> >$ cd /home/$USER/
> >$rm -rf .kd*
>
> Hi Brice,
>
> Well no. X doesn't start. I only have shell access. What I meant in my
> mail is that the shell functions ok, but startx just doesn't work.
> Probably something broke when my laptop wanted to go in some standby
> mode. I have installed toshutils and toshset in the weekend, maybe
> that's why something went wrong. The way it looks to me now I will have
> to re-install xserver and x-window-system. Would that be an idea?
>
> gRTz
>
> ben
Try to deinstall the tos* packages and then try to dpkg-reconfigure
x-server and x-window-system.
Have a look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log to see what went wrong.
HTH and good luck!
--
Brice Méalier
mealier_brice@yahoo.fr
Linux user nb. 372699
Debian Sarge
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