Re: "apt-get BUG" OR "OPERATOR Error"?

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> On Ma, 04 dec 12, 21:25:08, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>
>>> If my initial logon is followed by [ su <CR> password <CR> apt-get
>>> install gdm gedit gnome-terminal<CR>] a reboot dumps me at a root
>>> terminal screen with apparently no way to get a gnome screen.
>>
>> Could you elaborate on this? Is this a linux console or a graphical
>> screen with a terminal in the upper left corner?
>
> It was "graphical screen with a terminal in the upper left corner".

So you have X installed without a WM so you just have the default X
app launched, an xterm.