[ltp] Debian Testing (Lenny) and X Display Manager Problems on T20

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Frank Huddleston a écrit :
> I upgraded my T20 system running Debian "Etch" to "Testing" (Lenny), 
> by changing /etc/apt/sources-list to point to the testing 
> distribution, then doing an
> apt-get --u dist-upgrade. I had been running Fluxbox under gdm, and 
> upon rebooting with the new system, I was asked if I wanted to make 
> Fluxbox the default session. I hadn't seen this before, but I answered 
> "yes". I was then logged on with a Gnome session, which I found a 
> little strange after I had just said to make Fluxbox the default. But
> whatever: I logged out and attempted to log back in, this time 
> specifying specifically that Fluxbox was to be used. Except: the 
> keyboard and mouse appeared not to work. So
> I rebooted. Then the screen went blank as soon as gdm was started. I 
> couldn't get the text consoles via F1-F5 or so: I just had to restart 
> into single-user mode to be able to communicate with the computer. 
> Since Debian has a default run state of 2, which starts gdm, I removed 
> /etc/rc2.d/gdm. OK, it didn't start gdm by default. (Really, I don't 
> understand this: there should be some run states between 1 
> (single-user) and 2 (regular use) which don't start X, but I guess 
> that's up to me). I figured, maybe the problem is with gdm, so I 
> installed kdm and xdm. I made xdm the default display manager. Upon 
> rebooting, I got a screen which is all black about halfway up, then a 
> gray band, and then the top 1/3 or so is gray, and the console 
> characters will appear in it - but only after they've scrolled up. So 
> I can't see the results of what I've typed until I hit enter a lot of 
> times to scroll the screen up: page up doesn't work.
> So I can't communicate very well with the computer. I tried using ssh 
> from another computer: the connection is rejected. Evidently I need to 
> have sshd installed:
> apt-get install sshd doesn't do anything because it doesn't find a 
> sshd package. Adding this capability means knowing the name of the 
> package I have to install, and I don't know that: all I know is that 
> my machines to which I can connect with ssh have sshd_config in the 
> /etc/ssh directory, and this one doesn't: it's just got ssh_config. 
> That's about the extent of my insufficient knowledge about that.
> I must have messed up the video interface, probably when I installed 
> xdm and made it the default. Booting into single-user mode is no 
> better anymore: although theoretically it doesn't start any of the 
> display managers, it gets to some part about "savagexxxx" (reading the 
> screen upon boot) and then I get the "banded" display I described. 
> Echoed characters appear slowly, seemingly forming out of a mist on my 
> screen. Starting xdm or kdm produces a change: the top band gets a 
> light background, and a darker gray rectange (truncated, because it's 
> hidden behind the other bands) appears. Looks almost like it's going 
> to be an xterm, but no characters appear: at least, I haven't been 
> able to make any appear.
> So can anyone suggest something?  I removed /etc/rc1.d/Sxxgdm, 
> /etc/rc1.d/Sxxkdm, etc. What can you suggest? I guess I could just 
> reinstall from a netinst CD, but I'd like to rescue this if I can, and 
> I figure I should be able to.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frank Huddleston
>
>
>
Hello for your problem it have 2 solutions
te more easyer remplace gdm by xdm
the second add on /home/user/.xsession

exec /usr/bin/fluxbox


for ssh you can installed apt-get install openssh-*