I had updated and upgraded my friend's computer using apt-get and it updated kde and xserver too. While it was installing the updates it gave me an option to close kdm as it was running, and I closed and let it update the kdm too. After the update process is done, I ran lilo and rebooted it. It booted to runlevel 5 as usual but Xserver ddidnt come up. It booted to a tty1 directly. It showed me 5 when I issued runlevel command. I have started X using 'startx' and it brought me up just the debian screen that is there by default on the login menu in knoppix with some four big wierd buttons kind of things,which do nothing. When I right click on the screen a menu comes up like the way solaris or Irix work. So, basically KDM broke or before restarting do i need to run any program ? I mean do I need to run anything after updating kdm??? I had the same prb and I tried every possible way to fix it but couldn't and so finally re-installed knoppix on my computer. Now, I want to solve this stupid problem, pls help me out. I couldn't get any useful info from the log. I only thing looked suspicious was (EE) DRI Intializatin failed ...
I noticed that it happend every time, whether X came up successfully r not. Does anyone had the same/similar problem?