Re: [Cooker] Linked to my x Server breakdown ?

[Laurent Suchet]

Moreno wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Laurent Suchet <laurent.s3@free.fr> wrote:
>   
> > As said in my previous message, I finally managed to have X server starting,
> > but only by doing startx then startgnome in the xterm windows that opens
> > (where is gdm ????).
> >
> > In Gnome I had a break in the keyboard config, and the gnome keyboard
> > configurator was empty with no country available, nor even keyboard model.
> > So I uninstalled/reinstalled x11-data-kbddata and then I was able to
> > configure my keyboard under gnome.......
> >
> > But when closing the session I had a message error, the xterm windows
> > decoration disappeared, and at next boot my system was broken: when doing
> > startx I have the xterm windows, but without window decoration, and each
> > time I hit a keyboard key ..... the resolution change..... but no letter is
> > printed on screen...
> >
> > I'm not at home. Reinstalling all the x11 stuff didn't change anything. So I
> > think it could be a gnome conf problem. Has anybody already seen that? I'll
> > try to clear my gnome conf files to see if it solves this.
> >
> > LS
> >
> >     
>
> The problem is lost file in the /etc/X/dm.d.
>
> To solve the problem urpmi --replacepkgs xinitrc
>
> There are a lot of file lost, I wrote a small guide on
>
> This is the the guide
> http://www.mandrakeitalia.org/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=333
> and this is the Google translation
> http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mandrakeitalia.org%2Fmodules%2Fwfsection%2Farticle.php%3Farticleid%3D333&hl=it&ie=UTF8&sl=it&tl=en
>
>
> Bye Bye, Moreno
>   
Thanks for the trick, I managed by this way to have automatic gdm, 
restored X server... Many files where missing...

But the strange thing is that I have only gnome/openbox and kde/openbox 
to choice. Normal gnome session isn't available anymore...

What is the issue?

LS