On 25 Mar 2002, Dale Hair wrote: > > > > > i shut down gdm and said "startx" > > > > lo and behold: up comes enlightenment . . no wonder they call it E! > > > > i'm gonna go ponder this for a while > > > > as always, > > > > thank you > > > This happened to me once, after a dist-upgrade I think. After running > out of ideas I did the windows thing and rebooted. Everything was just > fine after that. > if i reboot, i get the loginbox -> flash flash -> loginbox routine. so i shut gdm and startx. rebooting has not helped much this go-round. without any gnome on the box, gdm can't do much. guess i'll insert an exit 0 at the top of /etc/init.d/gdm.
also, having purged everything gnome or ximian related, my apt-get etc is clogged with gnome + ximian packages wanting to be re-installed. so i guess they are still in deb form in /var/apt... think i need a night's sleep. dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (r/h 7.2 krud; debian woody+ximian) PO Box 520 Ramah, NM 87321 no gates .~. no windows... /V\ /( )\ running GNU/Linux ^^-^^ (Linux TM Linus Torvalds) free at last! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]