Re: Problems after upgrade to udev - can't start X
Hello
Richard L. Halpert (<richardlhalpert@gmail.com>) wrote:
> I recently upgraded from sarge to etch, and I ran into a problem that
> seems to be related to udev. During the upgrade, hotplug was removed
> and udev was installed.
Then you also read the message that told you to purge the hotplug
package. Did you do that?
> Afterwards, I received the following error message when trying
> to log in (via gdm): Error creating the child process for this
> terminal. If I revert back from udev to hotplug, the problems
> subside. I really want to make the transition to udev so that I can
> use the latest version of gnome-volume-manager. It seems one or two
> people have experienced similar symptoms, but the fixes they used
> didn't help me at all.
Can you start X by running `startx` from the command line?
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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