Re: locked out from gdm - input field greyed out
B.Hoffmann wrote:
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 01:39 -0600, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
wrote:
B.Hoffmann wrote:
Being at the command line, is there a command structure to reverse what
I posted in the first post? I mean to reverse
ln -s /home/<insert your username here>/.themes /root/.themes
And what would it be? Ta.
If /root/.themes never existed before, I imagine this:
# rm /root/.themes
If you really need to keep /root/.themes, you might do this:
# rm /root/.themes
# cp -r /home/<your-user-name-here>/.themes /root/.themes
Above did not work and it is continuing to report that 'circles' could
not be loaded (this is the error I get) for graphical login, that's why
it's reverting back to standard greeter. Boxes in that one still greyed
out.
Since gdm is sick right now, it's time to give it a rest:
# /etc/init.d/gdm stop
At least temporarily, you could use a new display manager:
# aptitude install kdm
Then make kdm (the KDE display manager) the default:
# update-rc.d -f gdm remove
# update-rc.d kdm defaults
Tried to start gnome-session from the command line after logging in and
get "Gtk-WARNING**:cannot open display:"
To start X from a console, you would typically use "startx." Since you
want to find out what's bugging gdm, I suggest (as root) this:
# gdm --nodaemon
To stop gdm, switch back to virtual terminal 2 (Control-Alt-F2) and hit
Control-C.
Is there a way to edit gdm.conf from the command line? And how to
display the file for editing?
You can use "vi" to edit the gdm.conf file:
# vi /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
After you do that, verify that everything is okay under
/usr/share/gdm/themes/.
Kind Regards,
B.Hoffmann
Linux User #398054
-Foresight Linux- -Ubuntu- -Debian (Sarge)-
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