-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hello guys,
since the last 2 days, i have't had a window manager working. i had lost gnome when i installed some msttcorefonts. after a couple of days of posting on mailing lists and trying everything i could, i finally removed everything xfree-, gnome-, etc and started afresh. effectively, i had the /etc/X11 dir almost empty. i know a lot of that is linked to in /usr/X11R6/libs but not sure how much. what i want to say is, i did not empty the latter. but i purged all x-related packages from dselect in order to start off afresh. to continue, i still have the same problem i had before. anwyays now, i have gnome2.2 (the woody backport created by James Strandboge). i have xfree86 4.2.1 backport for woody, again from people.debian.org/~blade/woody/i386. 1. i have a desktop manager (xdm) that starts up ok. 2. i enter my login/passwd 3. gnome2 starts, i see gnome2 try to start but it immediately aborts and comes back to xdm. i have been seeing this same behavior right since the time the problem started. having done what all i did, i think the problem is neither with X nor with gnome2. its something else. can someone tell me where to check next? or if i need to supply something more, please ask. mail me directly if you wish coz i am going to see the end of this tonight thanks -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+apAMpGV6DrcYEAURAr9UAJwMUGm4RzLgZfUM/+QZdwLkIYSYRACfbue7 l04/gF00bQqp5zUDwNdXhJA= =ZsYf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
