Re: The Oh, No... error when gdm is trying to start

2012-08-19 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
Paul Johnson, 15.08.2012: In the olden days, I'd just remove gdm and then run startx from the command line to start X11. But now, as far as I can tell, the Gnome system pre-supposes a session-managed display manager. I run gnome with startx. You need the gnome-session package installed but

Re: The Oh, No... error when gdm is trying to start

2012-08-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:13:53 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: On a student's Debian system, I ran some updates and resulted in gdm refusing to start, with the error message that shows a picture of a sad computer and a message

Re: The Oh, No... error when gdm is trying to start

2012-08-16 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:13:53 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: On a student's Debian system, I ran some updates and resulted in gdm refusing to start, with

Re: The Oh, No... error when gdm is trying to start

2012-08-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:08:27 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: (...) This crash happens before GDM offers the list of users, so I don't understand how it could be related to a config problem in a user account. Right? Everybody

The Oh, No... error when gdm is trying to start

2012-08-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On a student's Debian system, I ran some updates and resulted in gdm refusing to start, with the error message that shows a picture of a sad computer and a message says: Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a system administrator.

Re: The Oh, No... error when gdm is trying to start

2012-08-15 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:13:53 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: On a student's Debian system, I ran some updates and resulted in gdm refusing to start, with the error message that shows a picture of a sad computer and a message says: Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the