I did an apt-get upgrade today (I'm on Debian Sid btw). Thought I would do a reboot since it had been a while and a lot had changed. When the machine restarted, my machine did not run KDE (like it normally does), it stayed in text mode and put me at a prompt.
Logging in and running "startx" fixed this but it meant that ssh-agent wasn't working so I need to type in a lengthy pass phrase to get to the other machines on my network. What I was wondering was whether something got broken that I missed being discussed here. I'm thinking kdm has a problem. Here is what I tried: dpkg-reconfigure kdm (choosing kdm out of kdm, gdm, etc). This output: sh: line 1: /usr/bin/kde-update-menu: Permission denied sh: line 1: /usr/bin/kde-update-menu: Permission denied Not starting K Desktop Manager (kdm); it is not the default display manager. I assume that isn't too healthy! Also, /etc/X11/default-display-manager has the contents: "10 kdm/daemon_name doesn't exist". I'm thinking that isn't too healthy either! "which kdm" returns "/usr/bin/kdm" so that looks ok to me. Can anyone help me with this? The above tests are just guessing really. This isn't a part of the system that I know particularly well. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Andrew
