GUIs won't load from GDM

fearofcarpet · 11-17-2003, 04:33 PM

After some... Less than friendly rebooting KDE and GNOME fail to start from GDM. I have to do a "failsafe" session then run "startkde" from the command line. Everything works as it should from then on. Can anyone give me a hint as to what might be broken? I get no errors in XFree86 logs, only "kdeinit failed" pops up once and a while in a dialog box. Seems like there must be a file that has been corrupted that is causing this.

misc · 11-20-2003, 10:53 AM

Is this reproducible with a fresh user account?

aqoliveira · 11-20-2003, 11:12 AM

Howzit

check the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file and see if tells u what desktop GUI it should be using if it says nothing then place the entry that is necessary.

chow