boot sequence broken

[Jonas Norlander]

2009/3/9 nepal <nepal.roade at googlemail.com>:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:55:22 +0100
> Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Have you checked for errors in the log files /var/log/Xorg.?.log
>
> no, as there have been no errors reported during what has happened.
>
> but
>
> it is now all working correctly again and I'm not sure how TBH. All I
> do know is that I got to the point of putting in an install disc for
> Ubuntu 8.10 and restarted the machine for the last time just in case it
> had resolved, hehe and it had/has. What I do know is I did apt-get
> autoremove as suggested on screen which got rid of a lot of gnome
> stuff and left me without a display manager. Then I had to install kdm
> which I also did at the command line as was both quick and simple. Then
> I could log in directly to kdm and all is now well - hoping not to tempt
> providence with such a foolish statement ;)
>
> nepal.

Good to here.

One other way i remembered later is to use the dpkg-reconfigure
program to reconfigure a installed package. In your case "sudo
dpkg-reconfigure kdm"

/ Jonas