My problem is, that my Debian installation shows a grey screen on start up and boots into a console, instead into gnome.
When I start X manually with startx everything starts fine, so the DE seems to be functioning.
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The program where you type your user name and password in a graphical environment, and that logs you into a graphical session, is called a display manager. You need to install a display manager. On Debian, if you install any of the display manager packages then one of them will be started at boot time.
Any of the packages that provide the x-display-manager virtual package will do. As of Debian jessie, that's gdm3 (Gnome), kdm (KDE), lightdm (lightweight but themable), slim (lightweight but themable), wdm (lightweight but themable, oldish), xdm (old-style, bare-bones). You don't have to use a display manager that matches your desktop environment. If in doubt, pick lightdm.
answered May 19 '15 at 19:36
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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i have gdm3 installer, and write in cmd gmd3 start no succes but write in cmd startx load gnome succes, but is in boot the os no running gnome – Ymil May 19 '15 at 21:33
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@LautaroLinquiman What happens when you run
service gdm3 start? Copy-paste the output. – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' May 19 '15 at 21:36 -
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I was also confused by this problem for a long time. Reading the documentation from Debian wiki, at last, I finally found a way out.
# systemctl status gdm
# systemctl start gdm
and then I can access GUI again. Reference:
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First of all GNOME is already there, but by default it is off.
To reset your login manager so that it runs gnome at boot up, do (as superuser)
update-rc.d -f gdm3 defaults
Or you can re-install and select the proper options
You can install the GUI easily:
apt-get install gnome
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Well i had GDM3, in Debian SID after updating to unstable package GDM didnt work,
after a few google i found the solution, removing the .ICEauthority file and then configuring GDM3 to use only X11 from /etc/gdm3/something.conf
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Sometimes this happens if u run out of HD space if u can free some space using "CD" command to navigate through ur directories nd use the "rm 'file'" command to delete the file that can give u some free space then use the shutdown command to exit nd start the PC agin nd it will boot to the GUI. Pis ay
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