As the title stated, I was trying to see how KDE would look on my Mint 11 before upgrading to twelve (by installing the KDE-full package). While installing, mint complained about a lack of hard drive space in root before gnome crashed and I restarted. From that point on, startup would only to as far as to make the startup noise and show a darkened Linux mint background, but without a login box. From there I panicked, and removed KDE-full and GDM. Starting up would get me a KDE login screen, but no desktop option would work. I then removed kdm, and reinstalled gdm, only to get back to where I started. At that point, starting gdm would complain about a missing config file and start anyways, but with the same result. Again, I panicked and did a forced reinstall of xorg-xserver. Resulting in a lack of even the dimmed startup screen. After another forced reinstall of gdm, I have my dimmed welcome screen, but nothing else, putting me exactly where I started.
I have obviously done much more than I should have, but can could anyone assist me? I'd provide logs and such right now, but this post is already gigantic. Also, I apologize if this is in the wrong section.
In addition, starting gdm from console gives
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** (gdm-binary:1975): WARNING **: failed to acquire org.gnome.DisplayManager
** (gdm-binary:1975): WARNING **: could not acquire name: bailing out
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Additional snooping shows a segfault in gnome-settings in dmesg. Starting it manually has it complain about GTK+
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I can only get the dimmed login screen after a fresh reinstall of gdm. Is it even possible to salvage this situation any more?
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I see what I was doing wrong before, but running "restart gdm" still only gives me a black screen with a cursor. In addition, :0-greeter.log is a little strange, while :0.log is unremarkable. What the heck is going on here?
SOLVED:
Installed 12
