Hi Carl
I have tried startx both as user and as root and all I get is:
bash: startx: command not found.
I have been looking through /var/log/messages and I haven't seen anything
that looks like it is related to this. However, there are 7885 lines and I
don't know what to look for. I have started at the most recent and worked
back.
The only things I have come across that look "suspicious" are:
Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type
and:
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
(The line immediately above comes shortly after "Early unpacking
initramfs... done)
I'll keep looking. Any idea what to look for?
Thanks,
Phil
---- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Lowenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Friendly list for people new to Linux" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 8:31 AM
Subject: Re: Problem starting Sidux (Debian)
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Phil Mullane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Until this morning my installation of sidux worked fine. Then I ran into
a problem I've had before (sometimes) with openSUSE, but never with
sidux--or any debian-type distro. I never figured out how to get past it
in SUSE, but wasn't that concerned because I'm not really that crazy
about SUSE. I love my sidux installation and would like to be able to
keep it instead of starting over.
Then I come to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
(although it does not come up as an email address--it only does that
here)
That is a shell prompt which is showing you your login name and the
computer's hostname. It just superficially looks like an email
address.
And that is as far as I get. I can not get the GUI to come up. I don't
know what command to use to get it to show up.
When it is booting up I do see something I haven't NOTICED
before--something about no ISDN card and modprobe--but it goes by too
fast to read. (I write NOTICED because it may have been there all along,
and I just never saw it before.)
So I have two questions.
One: Is there a command that I can use to get past the login and bring
up the GUI?
$ startx
And two: Is there a way to stop the boot process so I can get a better
look at the part about "no ISDN" and get a better idea of what may be
causing the problem.
You can probably see the boot process information in /var/log/messages.
The "no ISDN" message is probably just a comment that the startup of
the operating system looked around for ISDN and didn't find any.
carl
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