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Re: [trinity-users] synaptic won't run

From: "Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:57:38 +0100
I really have an odd feeling about the changing display id, but I do not know 
what causes it.

gdm: uninstall gdm and reinstall kdm-trinity, that should do the trick.


Am Montag, 21. Februar 2011 schrieb Paul Cartwright:
> On 02/20/2011 02:44 PM, Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > just one try:
> >
> > $ echo $DISPLAY
> > $ sux
> > # echo $DISPLAY
>
> $ echo $DISPLAY
>
> :20.0
>
> paulandcilla:~$ ls -l /var/log/Xorg*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13869 Feb 21 13:20 /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7287 Feb 21 13:16 /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19230 Feb 21 12:48 /var/log/Xorg.1.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19524 Feb 20 08:03 /var/log/Xorg.1.log.old
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13870 Feb 21 13:21 /var/log/Xorg.20.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14162 Feb 18 06:38 /var/log/Xorg.20.log.old
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25688 Feb  3 16:12 /var/log/Xorg.21.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24775 Feb  3 17:03 /var/log/Xorg.22.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23678 Feb 17 20:57 /var/log/Xorg.2.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24774 Feb  3 17:35 /var/log/Xorg.3.log
>
> ok.... what does this mean???
> I had to reboot, and redo my video. When I rebooted ( I thought I would,
> since I had added so many trinity apps..).
> when I rebooted I got dropped to a text login prompt. When I looked in &
> did startx it took me RIGHT to XFCE screen, no kdm/gdm login screen..
> tried dpkg-reconfigure kdm-trinity, same thing. tried dpkg-reconfigure
> gdm & selected gdm. reboot, same text login..
> redid the NVIDIA setup yet again, finally started X..
> $ ps -ef|grep gdm
> root      5717     1  0 13:20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
> root      5718  5717  0 13:20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
> root      5722  5718  0 13:20 tty7     00:00:03 /usr/bin/X :0 -audit 0
> -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
> root      6120  5717  0 13:21 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm
> root      6122  6120  2 13:21 tty8     00:00:29 /usr/bin/X :20 -auth
> /var/lib/gdm/:20.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt8
> pbc       8163  6446  0 13:45 pts/2    00:00:00 grep gdm
>
> what do I need to do to get kdm-trinity working??