boot sequence broken
 

2009/3/9 nepal <nepal.roade@googlemail.com>:
> I am using kubuntu 8.10 with kde 4.2 (latest upgrade) on a new box.
>
> Since removing several gnome applications (one of which was gdm) the
> startup/boot sequence will no longer take me to a graphical login screen
> and load kde. It seems to fail on kinit. The message (copied by hand) is
> roughly
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/disk/by-uuid.[big number here] = cev(8,6)
> kinit: trying to resume from uuid.......
> kinit: no resume image, doing normal boot...
> ubuntu 8.10 pine-kub tty1
> pine-kub login
>
> not starting K Display Manager (kdm-kde4): it is not the default d.m.
>
> --------------end----------------
>
> I have chosen kdm for my display manager and *is* the default AFAICT.

Where have your chosen that and how do you know it's default?

> the uuid is accurate AFAICT. i.e. it exists at /dev/disk/by-uuid
>
> and the following appears in my fstab;
>
> # /dev/sda6
> UUID=24c79330-bf9a-48d1-a5fd-94753e6d8ed0 none * * * * * *swap
> sw * * * * * * *0 * * * 0
>
> so the resume message above refers to trying to use my swap drive?

Yes if you had hibernated your computer the resume file would be
stored on your swap partition. Thats a normal message just ignore it.

> Have tried reinstalling kdm without change in above behaviour.

When you delete a package with "apt-get remove kdm" you are not
deleting the config files and config files is not overwritten when
installing a package. To delete config files use purge like "apt-get
purge kdm".

> can anyone help me correct this back to normal (single) login procedure
> please?
>
> nepal.

Do you have "/usr/bin/kdm" in your /etc/X11/default-display-manage
file? If not change that. If that dont work try to purge the kdm
package and install it. From a console run "sudo apt-get purge kdm &&
sudo apt-get install kdm" then run "sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart"

/ Jonas

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On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:54:20 +0100
Hi Jonas,

thanks for the suggestions.

> Do you have "/usr/bin/kdm" in your /etc/X11/default-display-manage
> file?

yes that line is the only line in that file.

> If not change that. If that dont work try to purge the kdm
> package and install it.

It did not solve the logging in problem.

> From a console run "sudo apt-get purge kdm &&
> sudo apt-get install kdm" then run "sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart"
>
> / Jonas

I tried that but the original problem remains.

nepal.


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2009/3/9 nepal <nepal.roade@googlemail.com>:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:54:20 +0100
> Hi Jonas,
>
> thanks for the suggestions.
>
>> Do you have "/usr/bin/kdm" in your /etc/X11/default-display-manage
>> file?
>
> yes that line is the only line in that file.
>
>> If not change that. If that dont work try to purge the kdm
>> package and install it.
>
> It did not solve the logging in problem.
>
>> From a console run "sudo apt-get purge kdm &&
>> sudo apt-get install kdm" then run "sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart"
>>
>> / Jonas
>
> I tried that but the original problem remains.
>
> nepal.
>

Have you checked for errors in the log files /var/log/Xorg.?.log

/ Jonas

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Hello,

I just received a DAK acknowledgement for aqualung 0.9~beta9.1-1.1 but
it's not me who prepared this package.
I guess it's a NMU fixing the ffmpeg/libavcodec issue but I can't found
any related message neither on the BTS nor on debian mailing lists
(-devel and -release).

I would have been great if this people told me he were preparing a NMU
because I was working on new upstream release package that ALSO fix the
ffmpeg issue.

Anyway... If someone is responsible of this upload, please overwrite it
by the new packages I just uploaded to debian-mentors:
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/aqualung/aqualung_0.9~beta10-1.dsc

Thanks in advance,

Adam.


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boot sequence broken
 

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:55:22 +0100
Jonas Norlander <jonorland@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.

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2009/3/9 nepal <nepal.roade@googlemail.com>:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:55:22 +0100
> Jonas Norlander <jonorland@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"

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On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:26:33 +0100
Jonas Norlander <jonorland@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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

Aha, I remember using dpkg-reconfigure too, but don't remember on which
bit of the problem, alas I was listening to cricket commentary at the
time and not paying proper attention. Looking at the history of actions
in my terminal reveals it was xserver-xorg that was reconfigured, as it
had gotten into a mess also and lost the nvidia support. Then I did
autoremove to clear out the rubbish left by my messing around and then
installed kdm. Today my computer is "all is well" (hehe, my computer
has become spiritual!).

nepal

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