On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:55:04 -0400, Richard Carter wrote: > I inadvertently cut the power to the room where my PC was running Debian 4.0. > Now when I boot I get as far as the usual screen with: the debian logo and > the date & time in the bottom right corner; the "Session Type" and "Menu" > tabs at the bottom left corner and the "Welcome to redcube" window in the > middle with space for my user name ("robin") and password. Now, however, > when I press enter after choosing a desktop (kde or gnome) from the "Session > Type" tab the screen goes black for a few seconds and then returns to its > previous state: i.e. kde (or gnome) won't start. > > However, if I choose "Console Login'" from the Menu tab login, as euther > root or robin, succeeds. Use of ls -a suggests that my HD is ok. Under > either robin or root, if I don't enter any thing for several minutes line > after line of the form "DROPPED IN=eth0 OUT=MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff: (A lot > more stuff follows which I haven't included)" appear.
The first thing I would check is if your root filesystem is still OK. ("ls -a" is not a good diagnostic for this.) For example, you can run touch /forcefsck as root and then simply reboot to have your filesystem checked. > If I log in as root and run startx the gnome desktop opens. But if I log in > as robin and run startx neither kde nor gnome opens but I get a message > which looks like it might be part of /var/log/Xorg.0.log. > > Here are some things I have tried that didn't help: > logging with TWN, Twn or Failsafe > aptitude reinstall kdm > dpkg -reconfigure kdm > aptitude reinstall kdebase > aptitude remove kdebase, then aptitude install kdebase > creating a new user and attempting to start kde > > I have checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log and xsession-errors but couldn't find > anything that looked important. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]