On 2/7/2011 9:35 AM, Rick Johnson wrote:
did you try 'startx'? And btw, upgrades or dist-upgrades should be done without kde running (or gnome etc.). '/etc/init.d/kdm stop', log in as root and then 'apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade'. Otherwise you are going to upgrade packages that are running at the time and you can often break things this way. Also, if you are using a ATI or nvidia card with proprietary drivers, you will need to re-install the driver if X or the kernel is upgraded.On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Richard Carter <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:Hi Folks, I have been running debian 6.0 testing on a desktop with an amd64 processor. Before shutting down last night I used synaptic to check for and install upgrades: many were installed. This morning kde won't start. When I boot the system goes into what I interpret as "terminal mode". When I type in "startkde" as user I get "DISPLAY is not set or cannot to the X server". When I type "startkde" as su I get: ------ Kaboom Settings Dump------ kdehome - "/root/.kde" - exists? YES kde4 - "/root/kde4" - exists? NO kdebackup - "/root/kde3-backup" exists? NO kdestamp = "/root/.local/kaboom" exists? NO kaboom log - "/root/.kaboom.log" --------------------------------------------------- kaboom cannot connect to X server I tried using apt-get to install kde but was told the newest version was all ready installed. Fortunately I already have a recent backup. I have downloaded debian 6.0.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso and I'm considering re-installing. Does anyone have a better idea? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
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