Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover
On Sat, 7 Feb 2015 16:37:23 -0500
"Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info> wrote:
> OK, my fault.
>
> A new jessie installation. Display problem so I tried to switch to
> xdm. When this didn't work I tried to switch back to gdm3. No Go:
>
> gdm3.serviceJob for gdm.service failed.
>
> Looked for solution in man systemctl, found reset-failed command.
> Tried
>
> systemctl reset-failed gdm.service
>
> exit code was 0 but problem was not fixed.
>
> tried apt-get install --reinstall gdm3
>
> problem not fixed.
>
> What to do? Reinstall jessie? Continue experimenting with systemctl
> commands?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
My first action would be to install kdm. It will bring a heap of
dependencies, but if that's a problem it can be sorted out once you're
running again. On installation, you should be offered the choice of DM,
and a clean kdm should work OK.
You can switch between default DMs from the command line if necessary,
by editing /etc/X11/default-display-manager.
I'd probably then try a purge of gdm3 then a reinstall. If that still
doesn't work, you should have some more information to bring back here.
If kdm didn't work either, along with gdm3 and xdm, that probably
points to something lower-level, such as an X issue.
--
Joe
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