On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:34:25PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > jmullin wrote:
> If you don't know about it, the Debian mailing list archives (follow the > links at http://www.debian.org) are a good place to search for info on > problems. > > What do you mean by "the prompt stage"? Do you mean a login prompt, or a > LILO prompt, or what? Is it text-only, or a graphical logon screen? Can > you log in as both a normal user and as root? > > If you can login, try "startx". This will start X if it's installed. > Most likely, it's not completely installed/configured. In such a > situation, as root, run "apt-get install kde"; I believe this will > install a basic KDE setup. > -- I have a related problem which I have sidestepped by using "xdm" instead of "startx". Although I have loaded Gnome, I rarely use it explicitly (don't particularly like KDE -- in fact, the same goes for Gnome). But I would like to return to some form of "startx". On trying to initiate X by "startx" under root, the following error messages appear: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key xinit: unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3) server error Thanks for any help. sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
