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  • How do I get my KDM back after upgrading and restarting it?

    From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 13 11:50:26 2016
    XPost: alt.os.debian, comp.os.linux.x.video, comp.os.linux.help
    XPost: comp.os.linux.misc

    Hello.

    I just upgraded some libraries, restarted Debian stable (Jessie)'s
    kdm.service, but it got stuck in black console with no X. "startx" fails
    to launch it. :( How do I relaunch KDM without rebooting my old desktop computer?

    Thank you in advance. :)
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  • From William Unruh@21:1/5 to Ant on Sat Feb 13 21:11:39 2016
    XPost: alt.os.debian, comp.os.linux.x.video, comp.os.linux.help
    XPost: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2016-02-13, Ant <[email protected]> wrote:
    Hello.

    I just upgraded some libraries, restarted Debian stable (Jessie)'s kdm.service, but it got stuck in black console with no X. "startx" fails
    to launch it. :( How do I relaunch KDM without rebooting my old desktop computer?

    Thank you in advance. :)

    startx >/tmp/X.log 2>&1
    and you can then read the output of startx to see if there are any clues
    as to what is going wrong. A black X tells nothing about why.

    Note that you might want to try rebooting.

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 13 21:49:15 2016
    XPost: alt.os.debian, comp.os.linux.x.video, comp.os.linux.help
    XPost: comp.os.linux.misc

    I just upgraded some libraries, restarted Debian stable (Jessie)'s kdm.service, but it got stuck in black console with no X. "startx" fails
    to launch it. :( How do I relaunch KDM without rebooting my old desktop computer?

    Thank you in advance. :)

    startx >/tmp/X.log 2>&1
    and you can then read the output of startx to see if there are any clues
    as to what is going wrong. A black X tells nothing about why.

    Note that you might want to try rebooting.

    I meant without rebooting the computer. I know a reboot will fix it.
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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@21:1/5 to Ant on Sun Feb 14 17:05:41 2016
    XPost: alt.os.debian, comp.os.linux.x.video, comp.os.linux.help
    XPost: comp.os.linux.misc

    Ant wrote on 13. February 2016:

    I just upgraded some libraries, restarted Debian stable (Jessie)'s
    kdm.service, but it got stuck in black console with no X. "startx" fails >> > to launch it. :( How do I relaunch KDM without rebooting my old desktop
    computer?

    Thank you in advance. :)

    startx >/tmp/X.log 2>&1
    and you can then read the output of startx to see if there are any clues
    as to what is going wrong. A black X tells nothing about why.

    Note that you might want to try rebooting.

    I meant without rebooting the computer. I know a reboot will fix it.

    You're not rebooting the computer. Just execute

    startx >/tmp/X.log 2>&1

    and after it failed have a look into /tmp/X.log to get an idea what's
    wrong.
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  • From William Unruh@21:1/5 to Ant on Sun Feb 14 05:00:58 2016
    XPost: alt.os.debian, comp.os.linux.x.video, comp.os.linux.help
    XPost: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 2016-02-14, Ant <[email protected]> wrote:
    I just upgraded some libraries, restarted Debian stable (Jessie)'s
    kdm.service, but it got stuck in black console with no X. "startx" fails >> > to launch it. :( How do I relaunch KDM without rebooting my old desktop
    computer?

    Thank you in advance. :)

    startx >/tmp/X.log 2>&1
    and you can then read the output of startx to see if there are any clues
    as to what is going wrong. A black X tells nothing about why.

    Note that you might want to try rebooting.

    I meant without rebooting the computer. I know a reboot will fix it.

    Why don't you want to fix it?

    Anyway, make sure you log out of X ( that nothing X is running. Then try
    the startx above and look into the logs to see what is problematic.
    Note you want to make sure that you go into runlevel 3 (or whatever
    Debian calls it without X)
    Then use startx.

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