On Monday, 03 November 2003 15:50, Andrew Ingram wrote: > 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. > [...] > 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.
I had the same problem, just doing a echo "/usr/bin/kdm" > /etc/X11/default-display-manager (overwriting the strange "10 kdm/daemon_name doesn't exist" content; don't know how this setting was garbled ...) did solve the problem for me. Hope that helps, Klaus -- Dipl.Ing. Klaus Holler <gmx.at after kho@>
