Re: Installation Obstacle with X
I gave up and simply re-formatted my hard drive, and
reinstalled a very minimal debian package with no x
window system.
I'm going to print out your post and keep it by my
side when i do go ahead and try to install a window
manager and other x environments.
Thank you very much for taking the time to provide all
the information below.
Mike
--- Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net> wrote:
>
> I assume you installed xdm.
> I was going to suggest checking that with dpkg but
> if I understand you
> correctly you have no console. Therefore, I would
> try alt+ctrl+F1 in order to
> get to a console. You might have to do it more then
> one time after boot since
> XDM might be persistent then you are, at least for a
> while.
> Now in order to kill it you should issue, as root,
>
> /etc/init.d/xdm stop
>
> Now am I right when assuming that you have xdm
> installed? In order to find
> that out you can try
>
> [03:24:53 tmp]$ dpkg -l xdm
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> |
>
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems
> (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version Description
>
+++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii xdm 4.1.0-5 X display manager
> [03:31:56 tmp]$
>
> The above output is for the case when it is
> installed. Actually, the fact that
> /etc/init.d/xdm was found on your system is pretty
> much self evident to it
> being installed.
>
> The next thing you might consider is stopping xdm
> from being run at boot time:
>
> Script started on Mon Sep 17 03:24:42 2001
> [03:24:42 tmp]$ zgrep -A27 'How do I stop xdm from
> starting at boot?'
> /usr/share
> /doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz | tail -29
> --
> *) How do I stop xdm from starting at boot?
>
> This is a very common question from people who have
> upgraded from Debian 2.0
> or earlier, before the xdm program has since been
> separated out into its own
> package. Exactly how you deal with this depends on
> exactly what you want.
> Note that the following techniques all require root
> privileges.
>
> + I don't want xdm to run at all.
>
> In that case, simply remove or purge the xdm
> package with dpkg. If you
> have xbase installed, remove that before or
> simultaneously; xbase depends
> on xdm. See
> /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/README.Debian-upgrade
> for more
> information.
>
> + I don't want xdm to manage any local servers.
>
> Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and remove any lines
> that correspond to the
> local host. This file ships with only one
> entry, for :0. If you
> comment that out, xdm will start but will not
> try to manage any X
> servers at all (unless you have added lines to
> the file).
>
> + I don't want xdm to manage any remote servers.
>
> Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers appropriately. Note
> that as this file
> ships, it does not manage any remote servers, so
> unless you have
> already edited this file (or borrowed someone
> else's), no change is
> necessary from the package default to realize
> this state.
>
> [03:24:51 tmp]$ exit
> exit
>
> Script done on Mon Sep 17 03:24:53 2001
>
> Now you can go back to the bad X display by pressing
> alt+F7. ctrl+alt+F1 will
> take you back to the console, and so forth.
>
> My last comment would be about /var/log/xdm.log. The
> contents of this file
> might help you fix your X display.
>
> Hope this helps.
> --
>
> Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>
>
>
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