Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-07-04, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Philip Webb wrote:
100704 Dale wrote:
My KDE wouldn't start either. Actually, kdm wouldn't start.
Sort of have to have one to get to the other.
I didn't like the idea of not having my GUI either.
That's why I stopped using a GUI login many years ago (smile).
I login to a raw terminal, then 'startx': avoids lots of troubles.
Wouldn't help if KDE wouldn't load tho.
The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to
log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave
up on graphical logins about 15 years ago.
The reason it wouldn't load is that a LOT of packages, including KDE,
needed to be recompiled after the libpng upgrade. I already knew that.
Text or GUI login would not matter. Recompiling the packages was fixing
the problem already so having a text login wouldn't help on that either.
When I run into a problem with the GUi loading, I just do a ctrl alt F1,
log in and fix it. That is my text login trick. I can also check the X
logs that way too. It seems to me that the way you are doing is the
hard way. I just type in my password to log in and it appears you have
to log in on a console, type a command then let it load. I'll keep my
way. I like it easy when possible then do it the hard way if I run into
a problem that requires it.
Dale
:-) :-)
