Cannot log in!
After installing a bunch of updates in Debian Etch, and restarting X I can no longer log in. I just get a blank blue screen. Is there a way to revert back to when everything worked?? Thanks.
edit:When I do 'startx' I get a blurry grayish screen with an "X" cursor and nothing else. |
If this were Slackware I'd say "run X -configure and see how
the box works with the newly created /root/xorg.conf.new", but it isn't, so I won't. Let's wait for a debian user to come by and tell you the proper way. Cheers, Tink |
This will reconfigure your xserver
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 |
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edit: I put gksu infront of it and it said it could no open the display. |
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Greetings! |
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Also I think I was misleading when I said "blue screen." Here's what happens: I restart, wait for the splash screen, attempt to login in, then instead I having icons and stuff load it just stays on the default background screen. So wouldn't the problem be with GNOME? The odd thing to me is the updates I installed were a bunch that were required to get Deluge running so I just assumed everything would be fine. I got a few boxes pop up saying that something like "lib" will need to be manual restarted. So after they had finished I pressed Crl Alt Backspace and tried to log back in and couldn't. |
It is xdm that spawns X. Go to a console (Ctrl+Alt+F2), log in as root and shut down xdm. Then use dpkg to fix your system.
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I think I need to revert back to pure Etch because the updates were almost all lenny/sid. Is there a way to do this? I wiped my source.list file so how could this been done? I'm so confused I just want to have my system fuctional again. I switched over to Debian from Ubuntu 2 days ago so I really have no clue what I'm doing. Any extra details and guidance you can give me would be greatly appreciated. |
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I'm thinking the problem is now has to do with the updates I installed being lenny/sid because at the top of the terminal it says "Debian GNU/Linux lenny/sid 449 tty2." Now why would it say that when I'm supposed to be running Etch?.. |
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/etc/init.d/xdm stop |
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Hey, what do you want to do - and what did you do? Did you run apt-get dist-upgrade?
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I don't know exactly what I did. I ended up installing 10 minutes worth of stuff that came along with Deluge, and when I restarted X I could no longer log in any more. |
Hopefully you switched to Debian for a reason? Like you want to learn more about Linux or something? ;)
If so, great. Debian has comprehensive documentation. I'd recommend running apt-get update and apt-get upgrade commands and see if apt-get returns errors. |
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When I tried to log into failsafe gnome, I get an error like "Could not find Gnome installation, running failsafe xterm." |
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