Newbe Install boots to command line

[Bill Mustard]

Thanks for the help,

My request got delayed because I sent the request before I joined the 
List, so I tried a number of things...
read up on apt-get, and did a update, check, upgrade to no avail.

used aptitude to find that I had only parts of X11, and little gnome 
especially no gdm

tried to get the missing stuff, but failed because libtools was not 
available, and gnome didn't want to run
without it.

Noticed in this list that someone else had the problem and it went away 
when be reinstalled from a daily .iso

Did that, and all went well!

Now I notice that trying various screensavers (lots of fun) that one of 
them that I cannot remember locked the
user interface so hard that I could not get out, resorting to a hard 
reset.  Earlier I had a similar problem with
synaptic.  I was clicking through various packages reading the 
descriptions looking for inspiration, and one
would "quiver" the list and description pane, and sometimes never come 
back... hard reset.

I am using my winXP pro to send this note because the mail program will 
not import from my thunderbird
settings.  I had to physically copy setting from my win Firebird to my 
Linux one because it wouldn't even look
in my (mounted) XP directories.

Bill (Musty)

I wrote:

> I downloaded and installed "warthog" and all seemed OK.  Phase 2 (after
> boot from hdd) behaved sensibly, flashed something about an error during
> the update from the web process, stayed in the update app.  I quit the
> app, and got a command line login prompt.  login with my name and word and
> get a command line.  Now what????

and got 2 replies (so far...)

from Matt Zimmerman

> It sounds like the second stage install failed.  What we would need is a
> copy of the file /var/log/base-installer.log from your system, but since
> it's only half-installed, and you're not familiar with the command line,
> this might be difficult for you to send to us.

> Which CD did you install from?

> - Preview CD
> - Sounder CD #9
> - A daily CD (2004mmdd)

 and

from Oliver Grawert

> try:

> sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

> and after that 

> sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start

> could probably help

> ciao
	> oli