Re: Can't login... need help

From: Paul Ravish (pravish_at_appleaid.com)
Date: 11/29/05

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    Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:27:00 -0500
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    Hi Kent,

    Same thing happened.

    As root I typed /etc/init.d/gdm stop and it immediately look like it
    restarted

    When I tried ps ax | grep [xgkw]dm it didn't show anything.

    Since you said that that was impossible, I tried rebooting and
    rerunning the instructions.

    But first, before typing the commands above, I did a ps ax | grep gdm
    and a ps ax | grep [xgkw]dm

    Several lines returned

    I then reexecuted the commands above. Nothing was returning from ps
    ax, even though it seemed that gdm restarted.

    So does this mean that something is preventing gdm and/or X from
    starting up. I do have some files /tmp as well as some file that
    start with '.' in my home directory.

    Thanks,

       --Paul

    On Nov 28, 2005, at 6:24 PM, Kent West wrote:

    > 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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