Re: No desktop loaded after graphical login

nish.des@xxxxxxxxx staggered into the Black Sun and said:
I have no idea what Linux Mint is
Linux Mint is an Ubuntu based distribution which is supposed to have
more eye candy.

OK, this is reasonably useful.

What display manager do you use (gdm, kdm, xdm)?
gdm. No kdm, xdm found.
Can you tell that display manager to start Gnome or KDE?
How do i do that? Where are the config files?

/etc/X11/gdm/ for gdm, assuming they haven't screwed with it. Also,
since your DM is apparently having trouble starting the WM/DE, a place
to look for error messages is ~/.xsession-errors after you've tried to
start the DE via the DM.

If not, you might try booting up without X. Then start X using something
That is what I tried to do, but I [can't] seem to kill X. It just
starts right up. I first presumed that this is because of default
runlevel set to 5 and changed it to 3 using "init 3" and then killed X
but that didn't work. Also there's no inittab file

*WHAT*? They're really done something weird if /etc/inittab doesn't
exist. There is no way to tell a normal /sbin/init to use a config file
other than /etc/inittab AFAICT. Also, Ubuntu is Debian-based, and in
default Debian installs, runlevels 2..5 are all the same. They may have
changed this.

so i [don't] know how to make runlevel 3 default.

Try appending a 3 to the kernel command line via GRUB. That won't
change the default, but it'll show you whether they're using "normal" or
Debian-style runlevels.

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