richie Posted August 16, 2005 Report Share Posted August 16, 2005 Hi I downloaded bealge through urpmi on 10.1 Official and now can't start X. It downloaded a stack of depandent packages and I think something broke. Now my system just locks up when starting X. I can't even SysRq + S + U + B, proper reset required. It seems to happen very fast, nothing in the logs. I think it may be due to the KDM manager, but I am not sure where the config file to change KDM for mdkkdm or vice versa is stored and I can't use Drake to change as it needs X. Anyone know where the display manager config file is? Many thanks Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 KDE files on Mandrake go in /home/your name/.kde and in /usr/share(apps)(config)etcetc. If it's a kdm problem (and you boot directly to GUI), boot in failsafe mode, login, type: init 3 and: startx startkde (or whatever DE you use) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richie Posted August 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 Hi Thanks. I've already tried a similiar thing, I went straight from lilo to runlevel 3, linux 3, then startx. I'm kind of grabbing at straws with the display manager. I had a similiar fault about 10 months ago, and replacing mdkkdm with kdm fixed in, or it did something invertedly that fixed whatever was wrong. A real puzzle, I have checked all the logs and can not find out why starting X locks up. I'm using nvidia drivers, I swiched to nv same thing. It locks up so fast that no tell tales signs are written to the logs. I have since done updates and X was updated, but no change, X still won't start and the machine crashes. Any ideas? Cheers Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 For your information, the file you want is /etc/sysconfig/desktop In this file, there can be: DESKTOP=gnome DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm for example. Change kdm with gdm if you want, then: service dm stop service dm start Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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