on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:01:33PM +1000, Darren Marsh (djmarsh@bigpond.net.au) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > >on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:34:25PM +1000, Darren Marsh (djmarsh@bigpond.net.au) wrote: > > <...> > >>The only way I can think of to fix this is to reinstall Debian from > >>scratch and I'm not too keen on that idea. > > > >Slow down, not so fast. > > > >Boot single. > > > >Then: Run each of the 'S*' scripts above until something breaks. I > >suspect...hmm...not sure. Maybe gpm, but that's a long shot. > > > As a programmer I'm almost ashamed that I didn't think of something so > simple in order to locate the problem. Thank you very much. It was gpm, > it was configured for a ps/2 mouse while I have a serial mouse and ps/2 > keyboard. I have the same problem when I start kdm but now I know what > path to go down. ;-) Cool thing about GNU/Linux in general: processes are visible to the user, it's pretty straightforward to work out issues like this. Glad I can help, and mildly proud I guessed the culprit (though that was partially luck). -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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