Re: help! just upgraded and now can't login!
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:02:08PM +0800, Tim&Pep wrote:
:Hi,
:
:I'm a Debian newbie. I have just used apt-get to upgrade my system and
:now I can't seem to log in at all under X. I can login on one of the
:other virtual terminals (or whatever you call that when you press
:ctrl-alt F6). What have I done? Can I fix it? Thanks.
More info? are you tracking "stable", did you see any warnings on the
upgrade, what display manager are you using (xdm, wdm, gdm), does this
problem affect root as well as "normal" users.
Work around:
for now you can turn off you display manager. If it is xdm do:
root@localhost# /etc/init.d/xdm stop
then you'll be able to "startx" from your commandline login.
Alternatively you can "startxx -- :1" to start X even with the display
manager running.
-Jon
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