Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-24 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/21/2016 04:52 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2016, at 16:32, Stephen Powell wrote: I did notice one thing peculiar. startx output is written to the terminal of vt1, of course, even though it's running as a background task. And I got the error message modprobe: FATAL: Module

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-23 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/21/2016 04:52 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2016, at 16:32, Stephen Powell wrote: I did notice one thing peculiar. startx output is written to the terminal of vt1, of course, even though it's running as a background task. And I got the error message modprobe: FATAL: Module

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-21 Thread Zoltán Hermann
Or it may be that no permission, for example, is not his .Xauthority, .xsession file wrong file ownership, which can be fixed by sudo chown username.usergroup /home/username/.Xauthority wrong file permissions, which can be fixed by sudo chmod u=rw go= /home/username/.Xauthority //or chmod +755

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016, at 16:32, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I did notice one thing peculiar. startx output is written to the terminal > of vt1, of course, even though it's running as a background task. And I got > the error message > > modprobe: FATAL: Module mach64 not found in directory

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016, at 19:57, Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada > > wrote: > > > > hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into my desktop..why plz help > >

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-20 Thread Dominic Knight
On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 17:01 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/18/2016 09:42 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > On 18/09/16 07:57 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > > > > > > On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada > > > il.com

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/18/2016 09:42 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 18/09/16 07:57 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada > wrote: hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into my

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/18/2016 08:33 PM, Neal P. Murphy wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 19:57:58 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada > wrote: hello i

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-19 Thread Brian
On Mon 19 Sep 2016 at 09:31:10 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 08:33:23PM -0400, Neal P. Murphy wrote: > > will reach the X11 session. If it started. If not, it could > > be that a default xdm session (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.) wasn't selected or a > > desktop 'task' wasn't

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 19 September 2016 14:31:10 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 08:33:23PM -0400, Neal P. Murphy wrote: > > will reach the X11 session. If it started. If not, it > > could be that a default xdm session (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.) wasn't > > selected or a desktop 'task' wasn't

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 08:33:23PM -0400, Neal P. Murphy wrote: > will reach the X11 session. If it started. If not, it could > be that a default xdm session (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.) wasn't selected or a > desktop 'task' wasn't installed. > > Console #7 is the standard console used for X11.

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 18/09/16 07:57 PM, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada > wrote: hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into my desktop..why plz help roberto 438 881

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-18 Thread Neal P. Murphy
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 19:57:58 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada > > wrote: > > > > hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-18 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/18/2016 06:00 PM, Kent West wrote: On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada > wrote: hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into my desktop..why plz help roberto 438 881 9269 all i get

Re: cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-18 Thread Kent West
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:28 PM, bell canada wrote: > hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into my desktop..why plz help > > roberto > 438 881 9269 > all i get is ablack scren > even recory mode doesnt help > Do you get to a login prompt at all (graphical or

cant get to desktop anymore

2016-09-18 Thread bell canada
hello i installed debian 8 and i cant get into my desktop..why plz help roberto 438 881 9269 all i get is ablack scren even recory mode doesnt help