Re: tty1-6, gdm3, xdm, gnome, Gigabyte mb - many problems, little help
Still trying to solve this problem I ran two straces.
strace -f -e trace=open,read /etc/init.d/xdm restart
This trace ends "xdm is not the default manager" after reading
/usr/sbin/xdm from the file /etc/X11/default-display-manager. There is
no file xdm in /usr/sbin/ although xdm is installed.
strace -f -e trace=open,read /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart
This trace ends "Not starting GNOME: it is not the default display
manager after reading "BOOT-IMAGE=/boot/vmlinux-3.2.0-4 ..." from the
file /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gconv/gconv-modules.cache.
There is a file gdm3 in /usr/sbin and if the file
/etc/X11/default-display-manager is edited to read /usr/sbin/gdm3 and
the command /etc/init.d/gdm3 restart is run a gnome desktop is opened at
F7 and the virtual terminals at F1 through F6 are lost. If Ctl-Alt-F1
is pressed the screen goes black for several seconds and then blue with
the floating message NO SIGNAL!. Ctl-Alt-F7 will reopen the gnome
desktop wrapped around a vertical division at the center of the screen.
Summary: The system will boot as xdm with 6 virtual terminal, no x
window
OR
The system will boot as gdm3 with a gnome desktop, no virtual terminals.
Somewhere a wire is crossed.
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