Hang during widow manager startup

[Jamie LaRue]

Guy, try entering 	kdm	from root.

This open some kind of graphical login that lets you toggle between KDE
and Gnome, as a user.

On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 19:30, Guy Sample wrote:
> I hope some one can help me with this problem.
> First a little background, I have YDL 2.3 installed on a PowerMac 7200/90.
> 80 MB Ram
> 520 MB harddrive with MacOS 9.1
> 4.3 GB harddrive with YDL and 1 GB hfs partition
> 
> I'm trying YDL because I also have an iMac I am thinking about 
> installing it on, but I wanted to try and learn a little about it first 
> on a machinr that isn't so critical.
> 
> When I first installed YDL i set it up for the text login. I imediately 
> used apt to get all the latest updated files.
> 
> For some reason I am unable to run Gnome or KDE (KDE will only run as 
> root Gnome doesn't work at all). They both go through the startup 
> process and then right at the very end they hang and I have to force a 
> resart. (Control+Apple+Power)
> 
> At first I thought it was just because the machine was slow, but I let 
> it sit overnight to find the same state in the morning.
> 
> I've tryed a few things that I thought might work to no avail. At this 
> point I'm open to any suggestions. I could be happy running KDE as root, 
> but I didn't think that would be a very good idea.
> 
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