Re: [gentoo-user] GDM not bringing up log in screen

[Edward Catmur <ed@catmur.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 23:05 -0600, George Roberts wrote:
> About a month or so ago I lost the ability to use my GDM to log in.  I
> can log in using XDM which has to be called from the command line.  When
> my system is booting it loads gdm, but when it finishes booting instead
> of starting X, it leaves me at the at the command line.  I can then log
> in as root but when I type gdm it tells me gdm is already running.  At
> one point it told me that I had no screens configured or XDMCP is
> disabled.  I have unmerged gdm and re-emerged it.
> I have rebuilt my xorg.conf.  I have removed my /etc/X11/gdm.conf and
> then ran gdmconfig.  Even double checked rc.conf (no changes there).  
> All of which has been a learning experience but is alas fruitless. 
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log comes up clean execpt for a warning about APM and a
> warning while probing the nvidia video card.
> All hints will be tried and greatly appreciated.
> Thanks in advance.

"rm /var/run/gdm.pid"?

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