<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Karl Larsen <<a href="mailto:k5di@zianet.com">k5di@zianet.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">Donny George wrote: > hello > > i try to enter the command gdm from the text mode to go to the gnome > desktop(as i cant long in to the desktop in the normal way) but it just > returns a warning and says gdm is already running. aborting! > > why is this so > > can someone tell me > </div>> donny > > Here is what I get on Harty: karl@karl-hardy:~$ gdm gdm[7009]: WARNING: GDM file gdm-daemon-config.c: line 2033 (): Cannot run seteuid to 0: Operation not permitted GDM file gdm-daemon-config.c: line 2033 (): Cannot run seteuid to 0: Operation not permitted karl@karl-hardy:~$ sudo gdm [sudo] password for karl: gdm[7010]: WARNING: GDM already running. Aborting! GDM already running. Aborting! karl@karl-hardy:~$ Doing it as root it says gdm is already running. I guess it is... Karl -- Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Linux User #450462 <a href="http://counter.li.org" target="_blank">http://counter.li.org</a>. PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7 -- <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>hey karl thats true and this is exactly the very same error that i am getting. so would there be possibly a way to get my dear gnome back :) don