On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:34:59 -0500 "Brian Henning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Y'all, > After 5 hours of downloading packages (perhaps I chose unwisely...), > I > finally got to reboot my Debian Sarge install....and I can't figure > out how to get X to start. I feel really dumb, too, because I've done > this before and got the graphical login and everything working as I > expected it... but I can't remember what, if any, special hoops I had > to jump through. There aren't any X respawning too fast-type error > messages that I see... just no X. Hints? Allegations? Things left > unsaid? erhh.. Anyway, thanks as always for the tips. What happens when you do `startx`'? If X doesn't start with `startx`, what's in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? If you want a graphical login (xdm, gdm, kdm) on tty1 but you get a console login, see if there's an rc[n].d directory under /etc with a start script for xdm, gdm, etc. /etc/rc2.d/ has S99xdm here on my Debian box (sarge, sort of). After you've found which runlevel has the start script, set that to be the default runlevel in /etc/inittab. Then do `init 2`, or whatever the new default runlevel is. No reboot needed. Mike Fieschko Raleigh, NC -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
