Debian unstable and Gnome2

[nothingbutlinux]

Has anyone recently tried installing Gnome2 from unstable? I tried it a couple times, and after rebooting, X locks up solid, I can't cntrl-alt-backspace or anything to get out of it, I'm forced to do a cold reboot. Is this part of the adventure of using unstable? KDE is running fine, and I've downloaded several other aps, such as OpenOffice, without problems. It is possible I have a hardware issue, I can't get Knoppix to boot on this box, but with KDE doing fine, I'm just not sure, that's why I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed problems. Thanks!

[2ndsign]

istead of cold booting

try ctrl+alt+f1(virtual terminal)

hmmm

do you have the latest xfree86 files installed on your box!;)

good luck!!:D

[nothingbutlinux]

Originally posted by 2ndsign
istead of cold booting

try ctrl+alt+f1(virtual terminal)
Thanks for the advice, but I tried that. I haven't found a way out of the lockup yet other than cold reboot. I should mention the box I'm having this problem on is not the one mentioned in my signature. Here are the specs for this one:

P4 2.0 Ghz.
512 Meg DDR Memory
nVidea GeForce PCI video (no AGP slot on MB)
60 Gig HDA

For now I'm going to stick with KDE, I like it better anyway, but I'd like to have both loaded ... it's one of the great things about Linux!

I mentioned Knoppix locking it up too because that's a Debian unstable release, but it locks up in a different place in the boot process ... in Knoppix it occurs when sensing hardware, if I do the failsafe bootup it makes it through. Booting from Debian makes it through until X is launched, then the screen is blank and it's locked tighter than my aunt's hairbun. I may try 'testing' but that's still Gnome 1.4 I believe.