Re: Can't login... need help
Hi Kent,
Same thing happened.
As root I typed /etc/init.d/gdm stop and it immediately look like it
restarted
When I tried ps ax | grep [xgkw]dm it didn't show anything.
Since you said that that was impossible, I tried rebooting and
rerunning the instructions.
But first, before typing the commands above, I did a ps ax | grep gdm
and a ps ax | grep [xgkw]dm
Several lines returned
I then reexecuted the commands above. Nothing was returning from ps
ax, even though it seemed that gdm restarted.
So does this mean that something is preventing gdm and/or X from
starting up. I do have some files /tmp as well as some file that
start with '.' in my home directory.
Thanks,
--Paul
On Nov 28, 2005, at 6:24 PM, Kent West wrote:
Paul Ravish wrote:
Still no luck. I received the same error message. Here is what I did:
as root I typed /etc/init.d/gdm stop
it looked like it shutdown but then automatically restarted. But
when I listed the processes it didn't come up.
$ps ax | grep gdm
What you've described is an impossible situation (unless you've
been rooted, or you've got some really weird setup, etc). Perhaps
( -- long shot -- ) kdm or xdm or wdm started rather than gdm, and
you just didn't notice the difference? Try "ps ax | grp [xgkw]dm".
I'm not sure what OS version I'm running. How can find out? The
OS was installed about a month ago.
cat /etc/debian_version
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