Re: X configuration (amd64)
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:49:35PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the
> nVidia card hurdle and run
>
> apt-get install x-window-system
> apt-get install gnome
> apt-get install kde
>
> (trying to avoid restarting the gnome vs. kde flames :))
>
> X starts fine using both GNOME and KDE, the login screen collects
> password, I get the spalsh screen and it shows the first load step
> (?), i.e. the icon the debian sqauare with the caption "Window
> Manager" but it stops there, no additional loads happen. If I click on
> the icon, the square disappers and I'm lef with the background. If I
> kill X, kdm/gdm will restart it. If I leave it alone, the screen saver
> kicks in. Seems to me that the window manager fails to load. Any
> suggestions what I should check? TIA,
>
Hi Aaron,
Two possibilities come to mind. If you have a firewall setup that
happens to be blocking loopback connections then the GUI will not load.
Another one that happened to me had to do with a directory that had the
wrong permissions and would only let me log in as root. Have you tried
logging into KDE/Gnome as root? I forgot which directory it was.
HTH,
Jim Seymour
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