On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:53:53AM -0800, 2006me wrote: > Hi, I have the following issue. When I start my recent debian > installation (4.0 r0) everything work fine except when it comes to > start the x-window. It starts up but gets stuck in a black and white > screen with the mouse pointer as a X. right away. well. this is good. It means X is working. > Nothing else > happens. Gnome will not come up even if you wait a while (say 20 > min). have you installed Gnome? How do you start your X session: from a console prompt with 'startx' or from gdm|xdm|kdm? > I don't really > know where to start looking for error messages. /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but X is working so that won't say much. maybe ~/.xsession-errors but I bet that's empty. > > It would be a great help if you could point me to where I should > continue the search my x-window issues. So I can fix my own box. I'm guessing you don't actually have a window manager or desktop environment installed. A
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