Hi,

After I installed scim-pinyin, I rebooted the server and I can't bring up
Debian X-window anymore. It does request for the username and password, but
then it just hangs there in the screen, and does not go to the main window.


I can reboot to get to command prompt. Can anyone tell me if there is a way
I can restore my X-window using some apt-get install "package"?
How to do that? There are many information in the machine that I don't want
to lose.

Thanks for your .

Regards,
Pete

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Pete Kay wrote:
| Hi,
|
| After I installed scim-pinyin, I rebooted the server and I can't bring
| up Debian X-window anymore. It does request for the username and
| password, but then it just hangs there in the screen, and does not go to
| the main window.
|
| I can reboot to get to command prompt. Can anyone tell me if there is a
| way I can restore my X-window using some apt-get install "package"?
| How to do that? There are many information in the machine that I don't
| want to lose.
|
| Thanks for your .
|
| Regards,
| Pete

any clues in boot log or xorg log?

does x actually start? what exactly happens after you type in your
username and password? Is your home directory full?


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Pete Kay wrote:
> After I installed scim-pinyin, I rebooted the server and I can't bring
> up Debian X-window anymore. It does request for the username and
> password, but then it just hangs there in the screen, and does not go
> to the main window.
>
> I can reboot to get to command prompt. Can anyone tell me if there is
> a way I can restore my X-window using some apt-get install "package"?
> How to do that? There are many information in the machine that I
> don't want to lose.

I'm unsure what scim-pinyin is (aptitude show didn't me much), but
you might try uninstalling it.

But to answer your question, yes, you can restore your X Windowing
System, but you may not need to apt-get anything.

Can you switch to a text terminal (using the keystroke Ctrl-Alt-F1)?
Or, as you mention, you can reboot into a command prompt.

Then check your X logs (with a command like "tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log").
Look for anything obvious.

I'd probably try starting X with a very simple windowing environment, as
root (generally you don't want to run X as root; you might want to
unplug from the network first, and be careful not to do much while
root). One way to do this is to edit/create the file "~/.xinitrc" and
put the single line in there of "twm" or "icewm", using the name of a
simple window manager like twm or icewm. Or better yet, put "xterm" into
~/.xinitrc for a very minimal X. You might need to "apt-get install
icewm twm" to get them first. Then run "startx".

If it fails, again, check the logs, and at this point, you might want to
uninstall scim-pinyin.

If it works, go back and use the simple windowing environment with your
normal user.

This will give you a clue as to if the problem is X or your windowing
environment.

You might also want to create a new user and try logging into X as that
user. It might be user-specific.

Let us know how it goes.

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Pete Kay wrote:
| Hi,
|
| x started, but after i typed in user name and password, it just gives me
| the background screen.
| this is a new server so the directory is not full.
|
| Thanks,
| Pete

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

maybe its got something to with that chinese package you installed? are
all dependencies satisfied for it?




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On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:49:18AM +0800, Pete Kay <petedao@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> After I installed scim-pinyin, I rebooted the server and I can't bring up
> Debian X-window anymore. It does request for the username and password, but
> then it just hangs there in the screen, and does not go to the main window.

Have you tried removing scim-pinyin and seeing if that makes the
problem go away? It looks like the sort of thing that actually could
mess with your X session.

(run "dpkg --purge scim-pinyin" as root)

Daniel


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