Re: gnome wont start

[Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2014, 12:21:49 schrieb Joris Bolsens:
> On 12/23/2014 11:40 AM, Floris wrote:
> > maybe you can manually set the display manager to gdm3
> > 
> > edit "/etc/X11/default-display-manager" to:
> > 
> > /usr/sbin/gdm3
> 
> That did the trick, it was set to /usr/bin/gdm3
> Any idea why dpkg and apt couldn't reconfigure it?

Did you try to dpkg-reconfigure gdm?

You might try to force the configuration by reconfiguring another login-manager 
i.e. kdm. Just do dpkg-reconfigure kdm, then dpkg-reconfigure gdm.

Hope this helps!

Merry christmas

Hans