Re: tty1-6, gdm3, xdm, gnome, Gigabyte mb - many problems
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:37:04AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 8/30/13, Thomas H. George <lists@tomgeorge.info> wrote:
> > Problem: On initial bootup there is a message that gdm3 is not fully
> > installed, probably a hardware problem. (The Gigabyte mb has onboard
> > video AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics)
> >
> > Problem: Despite bootup message classic gnome display appears and works
> > but switching to terminals fails (Ctl-Alt-F1 results in the screen going
> > blank, then No Signal)
>
> Inside GNOME, can you open a terminal and if so, what do you get with:
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
System fully up to date as you would expect with a fresh netinstall.
> dpkg --status xserver-xorg-video-radeon | grep Status
>
Status: install ok installed
At the moment the system boots with tty1 to tty6 available but no
desktop, nothing at F7. Opened tty1 as root and ran the above commands
with the result shown. Then entered debconf xdm. Immediatedly the
gnome classic desktop opened at F7 and the terminals at tty1 through
tty6 were lost as described in the original post.
No problem opening a root terminal in the gnome desktop.
less /etc/X11/default-display-manager responds /usr/sbin/xdm.
/etc/init.d/xdm restart closes the desktop but can't reopen it.
Though all the screens are blue and display No Signal the desktop can
still hear the keyboard. F7 followed by Ct-Alt-Del will reboot the
system.
That's the problem with working with a root terminal in the desktop.
If I reboot the system to restore the tty terminals, open tty1 as root
and enter /etc/init.d/xdm the response is
[ ok] Stopping x display manager: xdm not running (/var/run/xdm.pid not
found).
Not starting x display manager (xdm): it is not the default display
manager.
On the other hand if I enter /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart I get
[ ok ] Stopping the GNOME display manager: gdm3
[info] Not starting GNOME display manager: it is not the default display
manager.
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