On 1/2/06, Jim Seymour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:49:35PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > I've installed amd64 etch and moved on to setting up X. I got iver the > > nVidia card hurdle and run > > > > apt-get install x-window-system > > apt-get install gnome > > apt-get install kde > > > > (trying to avoid restarting the gnome vs. kde flames :)) > > > > X starts fine using both GNOME and KDE, the login screen collects > > password, I get the spalsh screen and it shows the first load step > > (?), i.e. the icon the debian sqauare with the caption "Window > > Manager" but it stops there, no additional loads happen. If I click on > > the icon, the square disappers and I'm lef with the background. If I > > kill X, kdm/gdm will restart it. If I leave it alone, the screen saver > > kicks in. Seems to me that the window manager fails to load. Any > > suggestions what I should check? TIA, > > > > Hi Aaron, > > Two possibilities come to mind. If you have a firewall setup that > happens to be blocking loopback connections then the GUI will not load. > Another one that happened to me had to do with a directory that had the > wrong permissions and would only let me log in as root. Have you tried > logging into KDE/Gnome as root? I forgot which directory it was. > > HTH, >
Hi Jim, There might be something to it. I did not install any firewalls, as my router only NATs a few essential ports. I can't login to GUI, as GUI login disabled by default, so I don' think it's a good test, is it? Which port on the loopback server should I test? Any idea? -a
