Re: I screwed up gdm3, can't recover
On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 09:44:21AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> 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.
>
System is an HP Compaq dx2250 microtower about 8 years old I think. It
was my daughter's microsoft home office computer which she replaced last
year. I took out her sata drives, installed one of my own and installed
jessie. Boot up and all the settings and programs I tried worked
perfectly including gdm3 and the gnome desktop.
I created the display problem. The HP box has only vga, no hdmi so I
experimented with the settings and chose an incompatable one resulting
in a black screen. I created a second user, tom2, and the display opened
normally for tom2. To recover my initial work I ran rsync -r --stats
/home/tom/ /home/tom2. All my data was recovered but on reboot the
display wouldn't open for either tom or tom2.
Not wishing to create tom3 I tried installing xdm. There was some
problem with that so restarted gdm3 with the following result.
> > 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.
>
Reinstall would certainly cure all my mistakes. Before doing that I
found xdm works but only allows me to log in as root and then brings up
the gnome desktop with all the installed programs. I can live with this
until I find out how to correct systemctl's problem with gdm3.
Tom
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