Re: can not launch any window manager

[Joachim Fahnenmüller <jfahnenmueller@web.de>]

Hi Thomas

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 01:02:02AM -0400, B Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using Debian/Etch. My system crashed while using gnome and
> imagemagick. After a hard reboot I find I am unable to launch
> any window manager (be it kde gnome or fvwm).

How do you (or did you) launch your X session? Using a display manager (xdm,
gdm, ...) or from the command line with startx?

> All I see
> is a grey background with a functioning cursor. No matter
> what I put in my ~/.xinitrc this is the result. This doesn't
> seem to be a hardware problem as I replaced the video card
> and it made no difference. Besides if I boot from a live
> linux cd (INSERT security/rescue toolkit) the window manager
> works just fine. 
> 
> I even tried putting in older video cards lying
> around (first ATI Rage pro  and now Matorx G200).
> Also I  reinstalled the x-window-system*
> and x11proto* packages (of Debian/Etch). I have
> made no cutomisations to the Xwindows system or
> the Window Managers. This is a standard Debian/Etch
> official distribution.
> 
> Would be grateful for any suggestions you can make. 
> 
> regards
> thomas

regards
-- 
Joachim Fahnenmüller