Re: Can't login... need help

From: Kent West (westk_at_acu.edu)
Date: 11/29/05

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    Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:24:56 -0600
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    Paul Ravish wrote:

    > Still no luck. I received the same error message. Here is what I did:
    >
    > as root I typed /etc/init.d/gdm stop
    >
    > it looked like it shutdown but then automatically restarted. But when
    > I listed the processes it didn't come up.
    >
    > $ps ax | grep gdm
    >
    What you've described is an impossible situation (unless you've been
    rooted, or you've got some really weird setup, etc). Perhaps ( -- long
    shot -- ) kdm or xdm or wdm started rather than gdm, and you just didn't
    notice the difference? Try "ps ax | grp [xgkw]dm".

    >
    > I'm not sure what OS version I'm running. How can find out? The OS
    > was installed about a month ago.
    >
    cat /etc/debian_version 

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