Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover
On Sat, 07 Feb 2015, Thomas H. George 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:
What display problems? You don't say exactly. Also. What's the specs
on your system? How old is it? Etc.
> 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?
Yes. Reinstall, expert mode. So, you can see what the installer is
choosing to install.
Try just a terminal only install and see if that works. X could be the
problem.
B
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