Re: Debian 2.2 on a Quadra 700
>From the desk of Moses Wildermuth. Money Talks Enterprises,
http://moneytalks.giftworldnet.com/
> After taking most of the night to install the packages, I've finally got
> 'potato' booting! :-) However, now it is taking me directly into the GUI
> login & when I enter my login & password (as root or as the user acct I
> created during configuration) it leaves the login screen for about 5
> seconds then pops right back to asking me to log in again! It isn't a
> question of the wrong username or password because if I do that on purpose
> it gives me the "Login Incorrect" message below the "login:" and
> "Password:" fields then resets to asking for me re-enter them. It just
> clears the screen as if it's accepted the password, etc. and is going to
> bring up the desktop, then goes back to square one. I even tried logging
> in at the command line as it was starting up (it asks for login and you
> have about 6 sec before it goes into GUI mode) but the GUI (GNOME) still
> wants a username & password. Any thoughts? Or at least can someone tell if
> there is a command line argument that I can give it when it boots (in the
> "Penguin Booter" prefs) to *not* go into the GUI? Thanks!
Gee this is SOOOOOOO familiar. I got around it by deinstalling xdm. People
telling me it's gpm interefering, thought that makes little sense. I am
going to deinstall gpm too, for good measure. You don't really need either
one. you have to remove task-x-window(?) first, then remove xdm(try to
remove xdm first and it will tell you the other task name). If there is a
better way, I have not found it.
Regards
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