Problems when booting up...

[Larry Shields]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 April 2007 14:49, Larry Shields wrote:
>   
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>     
>>> Larry Shields wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I'm not sure if anyone has had this problem or not, but here is what
>>>> happens when I boot the system up...
>>>>         
>>> Not in a long, long, time...
>>>
>>>       
>>>> It starts out with grub, then show a black screen with a loading
>>>> bar, but the bar gets just about to the end, then it reverts back to
>>>> a black screen, with a login prompt...
>>>>
>>>> I now have to login, then startx to get it up and running...Might
>>>> anyone know how to correct the problem, so that it will bootup
>>>> correctly...???
>>>>         
>>> What do you _want_ to happen?  startx starts X for a single user, and
>>> afaik isn't ever set up to automatically run from init (though I'm
>>> sure you could do it, I wouldn't recommend it).  If you want a GUI
>>> login (GDM, KDM, XDM), then first you need to have the appropriate
>>> package installed, and active in /etc/rc2.d/ (installing one of the
>>> *dm packages _should_ set up the init links).
>>>
>>> If you can run that script from sudo, then check /var/log/Xorg.*.log
>>> and /var/log/*dm.log for error messages.
>>>
>>> Since startx does work, I would expect that you're using a login
>>> manager and the errors are in the /var/log/*dm.log file.
>>>       
>> Hello Derek,
>> Well what I want it too do it to start up as it all ways did when it
>> was first installed...
>> Showing the bar loading, then it switches to a screen with a light
>> brown in color with a small rectangular box for loging in...
>> At that point typing my username & password, hiting enter it brings up
>> Gnome desktop...
>>
>> But now what it does is show the loading bar, but it never finishes
>> loading, then it switches me to a back screen with a log in
>> prompt...From that point I log in, then I have too use startx to bring
>> up my desktop...So I suppose it is GDM that I am looking for...So what
>> is the appropriate package that I am missing...??? Plus why would it be
>> missing since it has all ways worked prior to this problem, I can not
>> see what has been changed, or remove and why...
>>     
>
> Please check if the package gdm is installed. Furthermore there should be 
> a file /etc/X11/default-display-manager which has the path to gdm, i.e. 
> there is a line
>
> /usr/sbin/gdm
>
> in that file.
>
>   
>> I looked in my /var/log dir., but did not see a *dm.log file, so what
>> may I ask is *dm, do you mean the dmesg.gz log's...???
>>     
>
> Derek meant the logfile of your display manager which should be gdm in 
> your case. The logfile for gdm is in /var/log/gdm/ at least on my machine 
> which runs Dapper. However, if you have used kdm also (that's the display 
> manager for Kubuntu / KDE), there should be a logfile /var/log/kdm.log as 
> well.
>
>
> Nils
>
>   
Hello Nils,

It now looks like we are getting closer on why it does not bootup 
correctly...
There isn't a script gdm in the /usr/sbin/??? area...

But it does have the path in the /etc/X11/default-display-manager 
showing /usr/sbin/gdm...

How that script was deleted is beyond me, but at anyrate where can I get 
it from, maybe the Ubuntu 6.10 CD...???

Thanks for the reply...

Larry

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