Re: Debian put into a broken state

["Sean O'Dell" <sean@celsoft.com>]

On Thursday 01 April 2004 01:16 pm, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On Thursday 01 April 2004 21:11, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> > Basically, it booted up pretty quietly.  I got a console, but ifconfig
> > reported only lo being initialized.  eth0 was never brought up.
>
> What is in your /etc/network/interfaces file?
> ...
>
> > It doesn't look like it to me.  When I run /etc/init.d/kdm start, I get
> > nothing printing to the console, no new XFree86.0.log and no kde.log
> > files. It just dies quickly and quietly.
>
> Not sure what to suggest here.  There ought to be something somewhere.
>
> Does /etc/init.d/kdm exist, and does /usr/bin/kdm exist?

I solved it by poking around with my kernel and re-installing 
things.  /etc/init.d/kdm did exist, though.  kdm was un-installed somehow, 
but it left that behind, so it sort of fooled me.

Thanks for the help, though!

	Sean O'Dell