Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome not working

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/13/2013 04:06 AM, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > When I start gdm, I get a message on the screen which says oh no,
> > something has gone wrong. 
> 
> If I had a bitcoin for every time I've seen that message I could buy
> all of us a beer.  Maybe two :)
> 
> > The log file is at
> > http://pastebin.com/qwNE7ee6   -- I would appreciate any help.
> 
> There are no obvious problems in your Xorg log, so the real error
> is not logged there.  I don't use gdm so I'm not sure where those
> errors are logged.  Anyone?
> 
> The main reason I don't like using one of the *dm display managers
> is exactly to avoid this sort of PITA where you can't even see the
> real error messages.  That's why I use startx instead.
> 
> Anyway, the trick *I* would try is to add the gentoo=nox kernel
> option to the grub boot prompt (assuming you use grub) to prevent
> gentoo from even trying to start an X session, thus avoiding gdm
> and allowing you to use startx so you can read the gnome error
> messages on the console while X starts up.
> 
> If you can ssh into that machine you could also try removing xdm
> from your /etc/runlevels/default directory, assuming it's there.
> I'm not at all sure how the *dms are usually started during boot,
> so someone else could give you a better answer.
> 

Well, I don't boot right into gdm or any display manager, I started gdm
by hand.  I did try startx, but got the same result, but I can get the
.xsessionerrors, so maybe someone can figure that out. 
Its at http://pastebin.com/JJrdxWHB .


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