I know I shouldn't mess with things, I really don't know what i'm doing for the most part. But sometimes I can't resist. Now, when I boot my computer, after the Nvidia screen shows (I'm running the drivers downloaded from Nvidia) I get a screen with an unhappy looking computer graphic in the center and below that the text: "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please log out and try again."
There is a button labeled "Log Out" just below that. Logging out and back in (nor rebooting) does not help. The problem may have to do with gdm3. When I went to upgrade it yesterday it wanted to install a lot of stuff I had previously uninstalled as no longer needed, so I did not upgrade it. I installed xdm instead, which worked. But I don't know how to configure it and it did not start the desktop I usually run (Mate) so decided to go back to gdm3. I did upgrade it (along with installing the additional packages it required) but now I get the message above. I booted to recovery a couple of times and tried various things. Thinking gdm3 may not have been configured correctly I ran 'dpkg-reconfigure gdm3' and get the message "[ ok ] Scheduling reload of GNOME Display Manager configureation: gdm3". But it still does not work. I also removed xdm thinking they may conflict, but that didn't help. I tried dpkg configure -a in case something else was pending, but there was no output, and I still get the same message as above when I tried to boot to the desktop. And, finally, after some more head scratching I ran 'apt-get install gnome', thinking that I was missing something related to the Gnome environment. Although it installed a lot of stuff (47 packages, I think), it still stops at the same message as above. Other than reinstalling everything from scratch, can anyone offer any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks, Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cancvmg1l_d3sbw6_wmaxpw_jcdzhkxukf0bntr+sytv4r7t...@mail.gmail.com
