On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Jude DaShiell wrote: > The other times it doesn't run at all. I'm pretty sure I know why too, > gdm.conf is not populated and running dpkg-reconfigure gdm only schedules > a restart of gdm. I'm cleaning gnome off of this system and don't expect Ok so why not just use startx with out gdm? I do this on debian leny and everything is fine. How about running the following after removing gnome: -Upgrade to lenny in the usual way -Edit sources.list and then run apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade -Once complete do; tasksel install desktop Then do; apt-get remove gdm Just say yes and see what actually happens. Then its just apt-get install gnome-orca Or you could builed it from source. -- Daniel Dalton http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ d.dalton at iinet.net.au