Re: Display managers fail since latest upgrade to Lenny
Quoth "Joost Witteveen" <joosteto@gmail.com>:
> On 03/04/2008, Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> Since I last upgraded my Lenny box, both xdm and gdm silently fail to
>> start at boot time.
>>
>> Actually, something in each of their init scripts fails and they are
>> never actually called.
>
> you could type
>
> sh -x /etc/init.d/gdm start
>
> to see what gets executed, and maybe have a better idea of what causes
> the problem.
Thanks for your tip. It helped me find the answer... uswsusp was
upgraded and when asked if I wanted a fancy splash image I blithely
answered yes and installed 'splashy' not knowning that it affects
virtually everything, including the behaviour of your display manager.
Sebastian
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