Re: Unable to reach greeter screen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13@wiredok.com>
To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 21:32
Subject: Unable to reach greeter screen
> I had to reinstall libernet 2.7 due to apg-get refusing to install,
remove,
> or ignore a program. After reinstall things looked good and I started to
> rebuild. I did a update and upgrade which went well. Then I went to KDE
> and started pkg manager and did 2 or 3 sessions of installing various
> programs, which also went well. Then apitude falted on a program while
> installing after downloading and hung, would not continue. I exited and
> later returned and did a apt-get update && apt-get install and three
> different programs were downloaded and none were installed. Then I
> discovered that I could not enter gnome or KDE because startx put me into
> icewm instead of the greeter. I discovered that I no longer had gdm, kdm
or
> xdm. Therefore I downloaded gdm and still could now get into gdm. Then I
> edited gdm config file and tryed again. No luck. I would like to get back
> to the greeter so I can select KDE or Gnome . How?
> Regards;
> Hoyt
>
I just went back to debian and the system came up just like I wanted so this
is void.
Hoyt
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