Ok, thats weird. startx should be there as long as xorg is installed. Anyways, lets go with the original problem... $DISPLAY is an environment variable which you should not need to deal with unless the upgrade mussed up some of the config somewhere. Try this: log in as your normal user and 'mv ~/.xinitrc ~/.xinitrc.old' and 'mv ~/.xsession ~/.xsession.old'. This will get these files out of the way for the time being (and back them up if case we need to put them back) and hopefully, kde can now start and create new versions of them. Kaboom is a migration wizard to go from kde3 to kde4 and i suspect it may have caused the problem. On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Richard Carter <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Thanks for the tips. I have tried "startx" but got "command not found". > The version of debian testing I'm using is amd64. I believe the video card > is embodied in the motherboard; Gigabyte GA880-GM-UD2H. > > Robin > > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Rick Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> and btw, i also am using testing and ran a dist-upgrade last night. Xorg >> was upgraded so i had to re-do the nvidia drivers. very likely this is your >> problem. >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Rick Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Btw, i see you're running a 64-bit processor but are you also running >>> 64-bit Debian? Here's some instructions for building the nvidia driver: >>> http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers If i remember right, >>> there's some differences with the 64-bit procedure which you'll have to >>> google if thats what you need. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Rick Johnson <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> The kernel headers are required to re-compile the kernel module but but >>>> in the upgrade, only the source packages are upgraded. you still need to go >>>> through the process of building the module. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Joseph Hume <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> On my daughters Kubuntu 10.10 laptop if there is a kernel update I >>>>> just need to install the matching kernel headers to allow the nvidia >>>>> video driver to properly install before I reboot. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 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]> 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] >>>>>> 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 >>>>> [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 >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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