Re: Just Lost KDE Access
Scarletdown wrote:
During my recent attempts to troubleshoot my previous gphoto2
problems, I did another apt-get upgrade. That did not fix the
problem, so I powered down to make sure the serial cable for the
camera was secured. When I booted back up, I got to the gdm login
screen. I logged in, but found that KDE is no longer one of the
session options, so I can now no longer get to my KDE desktop.
Short of completely reinstalling the operating system to at least get
everything back to the way it was before I started messing around with
apt-get upgrade, is there any way I can configure the gdm login to
once again recognize KDE as a valid session type?
I may eventually go ahead and reinstall anyway, but I don't want to do
it until after the weekend. I'm currently running via Knoppix,
directly off the CD, but even on this system (using an Athlon 2500),
it is still rather slow.
Ah; since Knoppix is a mix-mash of several branches of Debian as well as
a few other sources thrown in, I'm not surprised things went wrong.
Knoppix is a _Great_ LiveCD, but it has some definite drawbacks as an
installed system, IMO.
What I'd do is clean up /etc/apt/sources.list to just point to official
Debian mirrors, the sid branch, then "apt-get update" followed by
"apt-get dist-upgrade", followed by lots of repair, including "apt-get
--reinstall install x-window-system kde".
Or thereabouts.
But you could try just "apt-get install kde" and see what that does for you.
--
Kent
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