Re: Xserver/gdm
hi Kent,
Right the wm had disappeared and there was no gnom-session.
So i forcefully upgraded the system as well as gnome
i did apt-get install -f gnome
the gnome-wm too was deleted for some reason.
Now its working fine:)
Thanks
Regards,
Vijaya
Kent West wrote:
> Vijaya S wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >There was power off and machine shutdown,
> >After rebooting the Xserver wouldnt start on a Debian mahcine.
> >So i did startx and then gdm
> >
> >
> I'm confused by this. 'startx' is the manual way of starting X. 'gdm' is
> an automatic way of starting X (well, the X logon process). Generally
> 'startx' and 'gdm' will conflict with each other.
>
> >Now i get the login screen but after i login nothing happens i dont get
> >the desktop. its just blank
> >
> >
> X is starting, but it's not finding any clients to run. I'm suspecting
> that you're running Sid or Testing, and at some point you did a system
> upgrade which removed your default window manager/environment without
> you noticing, and the next time you rebooted (restarted X), this problem
> manifested itself.
>
> Alternatively, perhaps you're running KDE or Gnome and your user's pref
> files for that environment are broken.
>
> It depends a lot on what you mean by "its just blank".
>
> Try right-clicking on the desktop; do you get a menu?
>
> What window manager / environment were you running/expecting? KDE?
> Gnome? wmaker? icewm? etc etc
>
> If you can't get out of X, press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. Then at a text mode
> prompt, type something like "which icewm" or "which wmaker" or "which
> twm". Hopefully one of these will give a return like:
>
> /usr/bin/icewm
>
> Then create/edit ~/.xinitrc and put the single line in it that has the
> name of that window manager (icewm, etc), and then try starting X again.
> If you get that wm, then you're getting closer.
>
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