Re: Unable to reach greeter screen

From: Hoyt Bailey (hoyt13_at_wiredok.com)
Date: 11/30/03

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    Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 06:04:34 -0600
    
    

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13@wiredok.com>
    To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
    Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 21:32
    Subject: Unable to reach greeter screen

    > I had to reinstall libernet 2.7 due to apg-get refusing to install,
    remove,
    > or ignore a program. After reinstall things looked good and I started to
    > rebuild. I did a update and upgrade which went well. Then I went to KDE
    > and started pkg manager and did 2 or 3 sessions of installing various
    > programs, which also went well. Then apitude falted on a program while
    > installing after downloading and hung, would not continue. I exited and
    > later returned and did a apt-get update && apt-get install and three
    > different programs were downloaded and none were installed. Then I
    > discovered that I could not enter gnome or KDE because startx put me into
    > icewm instead of the greeter. I discovered that I no longer had gdm, kdm
    or
    > xdm. Therefore I downloaded gdm and still could now get into gdm. Then I
    > edited gdm config file and tryed again. No luck. I would like to get back
    > to the greeter so I can select KDE or Gnome . How?
    > Regards;
    > Hoyt
    >
    I just went back to debian and the system came up just like I wanted so this
    is void.
    Hoyt

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