Re: help! just upgraded and now can't login!
"Jonathan D. Proulx" wrote:
> 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
>
> --The workaround you gave me worked. (Also see other reply.) So for the time
> being I can at least get X going now. Still something strange is going on. When
> X started up, the window manager that appeared was "afterstep." This was very
> odd for two reasons. First before upgrading the default window manager was
> fvwm95. (there's no .xsession in my root directory so this is what started up
> when I logged in as root.) I did not change this default when I upgraded. Heck,
> I don't even know how to change the default. All I do is write .xsession files
> with exec commands to change the window manager. The other reason it's strange
> is because I did not have any version of afterstep installed on my system
> before upgrading. (unless it was there without my knowing about it.) I was
> given to understand that the upgrade command for apt-get will only install new
> versions of what's already on the system. So how did afterstep get there?
>
> One last thing: could xbanner have anything to do with it? When I upgraded I
> was given the option to let xbanner modify my xdm configuration files so that
> xbanner would run upon startup. This was the default option so I went ahead and
> answered yes.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Tim
>
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