__/ [Gordon Burgess-Parker] on Friday 11 November 2005 09:15 \__
> Richard Watson wrote:
>> Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>>
>>>Richard Watson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>All of a sudden the graphical log-on screen has stopped working - no
>>>>>error messages AFAICS - it just boots to the command-line log-in prompt.
>>>>>Can anyone tell me how I repair this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>If you log in does startx work?
>>>
>>>
>>>Yes.
>>>
>>
>>
>> In that case I would look in /etc/rc2.d/ to see if there's a link called
>> S13gdm that links to /etc/init.d/gdm :
>>
>> rich@bigriver:~$ ls -al /etc/rc2.d/S13gdm
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-09-04 20:52 /etc/rc2.d/S13gdm ->
>> ../init.d/gdm
>>
>> Then check that /etc/init.d/gdm exists.
>>
>> If it does try running that as root and see if it starts.
>>
>
> Thanks for the help - I discovered through the Ubuntu forum that gdm was
> borked - so I re-installed and all seems to be back to normal.
> Interestingly what seemed to have borked gdm was the installation
> yesterday of gnome-audio!
>
> thanks once again
I had a similar issue with kdm (SuSE 9.3) after I had installed some updates.
This was resolved using some simple instructions found in the KDE handbook.
The details of the suggested solution are rather similar.
Roy
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