Greeting screen keeps crashing.
 

Hello all.

I am having a great time working Debian Sarge 3.1 but a rather annoying problem happened last night.

After doing some writing in OpenOffice and then booting out I need to go back in so after switching on and Debian going through the bootup process it gets to the Greeting screen which then gives me a KDE message:

KDEGreeting has crashed using signal 11.

After closing the error box it switches the whole screen to the Command Line.

I login and type StartX but nothing, typicaly freezing.

I usually use Gnome so should I completely uninstall KDE.

Hope you can help.

Kind regards

Yeah, I suppose if you don't use KDE, then you could simply delete it to be replaced with Gnome with your favorite package manager (Aptitude/Tasksel or whatever else you use).

Change the login manager to GDM (see if that helps) or XDM or even the old fashioned text terminal if all fails.

Thanks for the advice.

From the text terminal I managed to delete KDE and KDM then installed GDM after I was able to get back in and from Synaptics I am uninstalling everything to do with KDE.

It is so good not to have to re-install the whole system again.

Again thanks for your advice. It worked a treat.

Kind regards