Don't blame yourself. Re: Won't complete bootup (gdm3 problem?)
On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 13:59:01 -0500, Jon N wrote:
> I know I shouldn't mess with things, I really don't know what i'm doing
> for the most part.
There's a good chance it's not your doing. The mailing list archives
suggest a lot of people have had similar ptoblems lately.
My gdm3 failed today.
It gives me a black screen with a few icons in the top left that I can
use for things like check battery status and powering down. Logging in
did not seem to be an option.
I still could log in on a text console (control-alt-F1) and run startx.
But instead of my usual xfce I got gnome3, which I find unusable.
I decide to install another display manager.
I install xdm and reboot. I get to log in, but I seemed to have no
choice of window manger, and again got gnome3.
I install lightdm and reboot. This one gives ma a choice of window
manager. I choose IceWm and my system is again usable.
Don't blame yourself. I suspect it's gdm3. Again. (It screwed up the
upgrade to wheezy on my server, too. But that was almost a year ago, when
gnome wa in shambles. I gather it's better now. It just doesn't seem to
do what I want.)
There must be some way to choose a different window manager using .xinitrc
or .xserverrc or something like that, but I don't know what it is. I
used to, over a decade ago, when you *had* to hand-edit these files to
survive.
-- hendrik
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