Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-11-01 Thread Henryx
On 29 Oct 2001 23:42:14 +1300 Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you uninstall gdm / kdm / xdm ("dpkg -r gdm xdm kdm") you will get > the login prompt and be able to log in, then go 'startx' to start an > Xsession. If don't change the line id:5:initdefault: in id:2:initdefault: i

Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-10-30 Thread Brian Nelson
Henryx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 29 Oct 2001 23:42:14 +1300 Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > If you uninstall gdm / kdm / xdm ("dpkg -r gdm xdm kdm") you will > >get the login prompt and be able to log in, then go 'startx' to start > >an Xsession. > > If don't change the

Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-10-29 Thread dman
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:47:31AM +0100, Marko Djukic wrote: | > > there is no /home//.xsession-errors file... | > | >How about /var/log/XSession*? | | nope, no xsession error log file to be found anywhere... just looks like | xsession doesn't start at all... | | i get the command line login

Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-10-29 Thread Henryx
On 29 Oct 2001 23:42:14 +1300 Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you uninstall gdm / kdm / xdm ("dpkg -r gdm xdm kdm") you will get > the login prompt and be able to log in, then go 'startx' to start an > Xsession. If don't change the line id:5:initdefault: in id:2:initdefault: i

Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-10-29 Thread Marko Djukic
excellent, thanks andrew+karsten! marko At 03:10 AM 29/10/2001 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html

Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:42:14PM +1300, Andrew McMillan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 23:16, Marko Djukic wrote: > > there is no /home//.xsession-errors file... > > > > i don't think it gets to the xsession to do any error logging... i see the > > terminal prompt for login

Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-10-29 Thread Marko Djukic
nope, no xsession error log file to be found anywhere... just looks like xsession doesn't start at all... i get the command line login prompt for about a sec then the screen blanks out, i don't even get a chance to log in... thanks, marko > there is no /home//.xsession-errors file... How

Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-10-29 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 23:16, Marko Djukic wrote: > there is no /home//.xsession-errors file... > > i don't think it gets to the xsession to do any error logging... i see the > terminal prompt for login for a second and then it goes blank... i don't > even get a chance to log in... Right, sorry

Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 11:16:34AM +0100, Marko Djukic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 11:11 PM 29/10/2001 +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > >On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 23:03, Marko Djukic wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > have a problem, I did a debian install and that went ok... i did a gnome > > > inst

Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-10-29 Thread Marko Djukic
there is no /home//.xsession-errors file... i don't think it gets to the xsession to do any error logging... i see the terminal prompt for login for a second and then it goes blank... i don't even get a chance to log in... thanks, marko At 11:11 PM 29/10/2001 +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote:

Re: problems debian / gnome

2001-10-29 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 23:03, Marko Djukic wrote: > Hi all, > > have a problem, I did a debian install and that went ok... i did a gnome > install and that didn't seem to go too well. > > everytime i boot, debian gets to the login prompt, waits 1sec then blanks > out the screen with a cursor bli

problems debian / gnome

2001-10-29 Thread Marko Djukic
Hi all, have a problem, I did a debian install and that went ok... i did a gnome install and that didn't seem to go too well. everytime i boot, debian gets to the login prompt, waits 1sec then blanks out the screen with a cursor blinking in the top left corner and i can't do anything. most