On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Dear list. Just this morning after booting my laptop (Potato, 2.2.17, Ximian > Gnome 1.4), I end up with a plain console login prompt. No more fancy > gdm. There do not seem to be strange error messages in the boot process, > the last line is: Starting GNOME display manager: gdm > Also, I do not recall having made any strange changes in my last > session. > Any clues what might cause this? > Can you start X as user? Login at the command line prompt and start: $ startx
If it crashes, you will see usefull information, if it does not, the fault is with gdm. Greetz, Sebastiaan
