Mooseknuckle
June 22nd, 2010, 01:32 AM
Hello after an update yesterday, I cannot log into my X session ...
The first time I tried, my screen showed a KDE background, and I got the error:
could not start ksmserver check your installation
then I had to click ok, and it put me back to the log in screen.
I opened a shell (ctrl-alt-F1), logged in and typed:
sudo apt-get remove ksmserver, and it told me there was nothing to remove, but said I had a bunch of stale packages and to apt-get autoremove them, and I did
Now, when I go to the log in screen (X), under sessions, it only has xterm (no gnome, no kde) ...
[edit]
I forgot to add, I have always used Gnome, and not kde ... I have no idea why it originally tried to throw me into a KDE session
How can I get my gnome desktop environment back so I can log in again? I have no idea what I did, nor how to get back to normalcy!
Thanks for ANY help!
The first time I tried, my screen showed a KDE background, and I got the error:
could not start ksmserver check your installation
then I had to click ok, and it put me back to the log in screen.
I opened a shell (ctrl-alt-F1), logged in and typed:
sudo apt-get remove ksmserver, and it told me there was nothing to remove, but said I had a bunch of stale packages and to apt-get autoremove them, and I did
Now, when I go to the log in screen (X), under sessions, it only has xterm (no gnome, no kde) ...
[edit]
I forgot to add, I have always used Gnome, and not kde ... I have no idea why it originally tried to throw me into a KDE session
How can I get my gnome desktop environment back so I can log in again? I have no idea what I did, nor how to get back to normalcy!
Thanks for ANY help!