Hi people, This one's driving me crazy. I'm running Debian Etch 2.6.8-2-386 and recently "upgraded" from xfree86 to xorg. Everything is fine except this one problem. I can't start kde (my desktop of preference nor gnome nor xfce from any display manager. Say I'm using gdm. I boot up and the gdm screen comes on as usual and I login normally but instead of going into kde (or gnome or xfce) an xterm opens. I can then enter (as me, not root) "startkde" and everything is fine after that. I've read about similar problems dating as far back as 2001 but none of the solutions I've tried has helped. My .xsession-errors file gives me this:
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... /etc/gdm/Xsession: Executing /usr/bin/startkde failed, will try to run x-terminal-emulator which is not very helpful. It doesn't tell me WHY startkde failed. I've checked in various /var/log's but nothing revealing has appeared. If I use kdm I get into an infinite loop. Selecting kde and logging in just takes you right back to the login window and round and round we go. Judging from looking at similar problems reported in various lists, these symptoms can come from a variety of causes. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
