Hi, <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Donny George <<a href="mailto:donny008@gmail.com">donny008@gmail.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;"> 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 </blockquote><div> Try the following commands : $ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart ot $ startx </div></div>