Hi eveyone, We had a brief power outage last night (all too common unfortunately) and my workstation seems to be having trouble as a result. I use kdm to log in normally, but now it just restarts and I can't log in as anyone but root. And root can only log in using 'failsafe' mode. Note, I can log in from a tty with no problem. It seems to be a kdm/X problem. Does anyone know which runlevel is a non-X login on Debian? I remember from the past that RedHat used runlevel 5 for graphical login and runlevel 3 for text-based. Default runlevel on Debian is 2. If I can kill kdm completely then I can try a 'startx' and capture the error output. Does anyone remember the command line to do that? It's something like: % startx %1> %2 blah blah blah I'd love to hear ideas. -Tim -- Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.org | http://www.zope.com W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com