On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:51:50AM +0200, ben van 't ende [netcreators] wrote : > Brice Méalier wrote: > >On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 09:41:19PM +0200, ben van 't ende [netcreators] > >wrote : > > > >>Hi List, > >> > >>After returning to my laptop today it looked like it had gone into some > >>kind of stand-by. That never happened before. Maybe I never paused that > >>long before ;-) Anyway after rebooting (I got some error message saying > >>something went wrong. Didn't pay much attention to it as my Debian never > >>fails me :-( ) I san't boot into KDE anymore. I can only access the > >>shell. That looks pretty much ok to me. What has happened here and how > >>can I fix that and in the future prevent it? > >> > >>gRTZ > >> > >>ben > >> > > > > > >Try to have a look a ~/.xsession-errors if present or look at the log > >files in /var/log/ > > > >X starts correctly, isn't it? > > > >The ultimate solution is: > > > >$ cd /home/$USER/ > >$rm -rf .kd* > > Hi Brice, > > Well no. X doesn't start. I only have shell access. What I meant in my > mail is that the shell functions ok, but startx just doesn't work. > Probably something broke when my laptop wanted to go in some standby > mode. I have installed toshutils and toshset in the weekend, maybe > that's why something went wrong. The way it looks to me now I will have > to re-install xserver and x-window-system. Would that be an idea? > > gRTz > > ben
Try to deinstall the tos* packages and then try to dpkg-reconfigure x-server and x-window-system. Have a look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log to see what went wrong. HTH and good luck! -- Brice Méalier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user nb. 372699 Debian Sarge -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
