dip7777
2016-10-14, 20:16
Hi all!
I'm unable to get past the screen in the attachment. Seems like gdm3 has some issues.
1905
Earlier, I'd followed this post https://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/how-to-make-pulseaudio-run-once-at-boot-for-all-your-users as user 'root'
It says in the link, towards the end that
In older distributions, a pesky program tries to start PulseAudio every time you log on, which may cause conflicts. Prevent this by running the following command as root:
chmod -x /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
I hadn't done that step.
Or maybe it's due to the apt-get upgrade I'd run before the problem started occurring
What I've done:
1) Create a bootable USB
2) Connect to the internet using that - GUI of the live boot USB - (connecting using tty natively is beyond me as my University uses a proxy and setting up the connection through
wpa_supplicant is ardous
3)
chroot- ed as indicated in this link http://askubuntu.com/questions/422928/how-to-reinstall-network-manager-without-internet-access
4) Run
apt-get update,
apt-get upgrade and
apt-get dist-upgrade in that chroot'ed tty
5) I can confirm that gdm3, gnome and gnome-shell were upgraded - they were there in apt-get upgrade's output
6) I even tried
apt-get --reinstall install gdm3 and similar for
gnome and
gnome shell followed by a
dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
7) Typing in
X just makes the screen go blank in the native tty, while in the Live USB's chroot'ed TTY, it gives the following output:
_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
(EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
(EE)
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
8) Typing in
gdm3 in both cases, nothing happens. Command executes and the prompt doesn't return. Have to press
Ctrl - C to get back the prompt.
In short, nothing seems to work.
Reinstalling Kali doesn't seem to be an alternative.
Suggestions please.. Should I switch to KDE? Is it possible?
Was the failure due to PulseAudio? I suspect that might be the case as PulseAudio stopped working before this happened.
Thank You..
I'm unable to get past the screen in the attachment. Seems like gdm3 has some issues.
1905
Earlier, I'd followed this post https://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/how-to-make-pulseaudio-run-once-at-boot-for-all-your-users as user 'root'
It says in the link, towards the end that
In older distributions, a pesky program tries to start PulseAudio every time you log on, which may cause conflicts. Prevent this by running the following command as root:
chmod -x /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
I hadn't done that step.
Or maybe it's due to the apt-get upgrade I'd run before the problem started occurring
What I've done:
1) Create a bootable USB
2) Connect to the internet using that - GUI of the live boot USB - (connecting using tty natively is beyond me as my University uses a proxy and setting up the connection through
wpa_supplicant is ardous
3)
chroot- ed as indicated in this link http://askubuntu.com/questions/422928/how-to-reinstall-network-manager-without-internet-access
4) Run
apt-get update,
apt-get upgrade and
apt-get dist-upgrade in that chroot'ed tty
5) I can confirm that gdm3, gnome and gnome-shell were upgraded - they were there in apt-get upgrade's output
6) I even tried
apt-get --reinstall install gdm3 and similar for
gnome and
gnome shell followed by a
dpkg-reconfigure gdm3
7) Typing in
X just makes the screen go blank in the native tty, while in the Live USB's chroot'ed TTY, it gives the following output:
_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
(EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
(EE)
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
8) Typing in
gdm3 in both cases, nothing happens. Command executes and the prompt doesn't return. Have to press
Ctrl - C to get back the prompt.
In short, nothing seems to work.
Reinstalling Kali doesn't seem to be an alternative.
Suggestions please.. Should I switch to KDE? Is it possible?
Was the failure due to PulseAudio? I suspect that might be the case as PulseAudio stopped working before this happened.
Thank You..