Rick Thomas wrote:
Installing squeeze on a G4 PowerMac from the "sid d-i" daily "Businesscard" CD.All seemed nominal during the install. But after the reboot, the login screen did not appear. I was left sitting at a text console. In fact, it appears that gdm and nearly all of the gnome-desktop-environment task is missing. (And yes, I did check "desktop" during the tasksel phase of the installation!) When I logged in and typed "startx" I was left with a black screen.For what it's worth, an i386 install at about the same time went flawlessly.This is repeatable. I've tried it with two different dailys. And with Businesscard and Netinst CDs.
I just updated Lenny to Squeeze on an i386 and had the same problem as far as gdm being missing. It came up in the text console so I started fiddling with the xorg.conf file. It seems like 3/4 of the Debian installs I've done have needed such fiddling. I fired up X and also got a black screen. I finally realized gdm was missing so I used aptitude to install it. It came up in the GUI okay after that. The one item I have to had is that postgresql and a couple of related packages threw out errors when aptitude ran. I've tried re-installing them with no luck. Postgresql appears to be running and I haven't seen anything complaining about it. Oh, I did notice that only postgresql 8.3 was set up in init.d. I disabled it and enabled 8.4. No change though.