[LUAU] X problem

[Al Plant]

pepe65 at hawaii.rr.com wrote:
> I am running SuSE 9.3 and I noticed that if I install something or do an
> program update, sometimes I lose the ability to start KDE, GNOME, etc...
> and I do not have any clue why (I haven't changed any display settings).
> Especially since the update/install is for some program that shouldn't
> be touching the setting for X (ie. Gnucash, DVDrip, etc..). When it
> happens, I can only get the xconsole login manager and GUI. I have tried
> restoring my original xorg.conf file, but I get the same problem. The
> only way I know of to resolve this is to do a re-install. Has this
> happened to anyone else? How did you fix this problem? What is causing it?
>  
> Rodney Kanno 
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> 
Aloha Rodney,

I had a similar problem with a Debian Sarge Box I built.
I edited the /etc/X11/default-display-manager file
and commented out this line which a downloaded update added.

#/usr/bin/gdm

and in /boot/grub/menu.1st
I added
init=/sbin/init3
This is used because Debian runlevels 2-5 are the same by default.

Then I could run the Gnome manager from the command line.

  I don't know SUSE, but you can probably do something similar to get 
the   Gnome back.

Al Plant

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