Re: No more X at boot
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Erik van der Meulen wrote:
> Dear list. Just this morning after booting my laptop (Potato, 2.2.17, Ximian
> Gnome 1.4), I end up with a plain console login prompt. No more fancy
> gdm. There do not seem to be strange error messages in the boot process,
> the last line is: Starting GNOME display manager: gdm
> Also, I do not recall having made any strange changes in my last
> session.
> Any clues what might cause this?
>
Can you start X as user? Login at the command line prompt and start:
$ startx
If it crashes, you will see usefull information, if it does not, the fault
is with gdm.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
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