debian gnome sometimes runs in fail safe mode

debian gnome sometimes runs in fail safe mode

[Jude DaShiell]

The other times it doesn't run at all.  I'm pretty sure I know why too, 
gdm.conf is not populated and running dpkg-reconfigure gdm only schedules 
a restart of gdm.  I'm cleaning gnome off of this system and don't expect 
I'll be doing anything more with it in the future.  Now I know what that 
howto file doesn't exist, developments are such that it's not ready to be 
written yet.

Re: debian gnome sometimes runs in fail safe mode

[Daniel Dalton]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> The other times it doesn't run at all.  I'm pretty sure I know why too,
> gdm.conf is not populated and running dpkg-reconfigure gdm only schedules
> a restart of gdm.  I'm cleaning gnome off of this system and don't expect

Ok so why not just use startx with out gdm?
I do this on debian leny and everything is fine.
How about running the following after removing gnome:

-Upgrade to lenny in the usual way
-Edit sources.list and then run
apt-get update
and
apt-get dist-upgrade
-Once complete do;
tasksel install desktop
Then do;
apt-get remove gdm
Just say yes and see what actually happens.
Then its just
apt-get install gnome-orca
Or you could builed it from source.

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