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

[George Roberts <georoberts@gmail.com>]

Pawel Nadolski wrote:

> George Roberts wrote:
>
>> Edward Catmur wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> 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"?
>>
>> That did not help. :-(     Still no joy.
>>  
>>
> Remove /var/lib/init.d/started/xdm and start xdm:
> /etc/init.d/xdm start
> Do you get any errors on boot or in /var/log/gdm.log?

I removed the above mentioned file, no differance.  XDM starts fine, GDM
as I am told is running, but .
When I look at the log directory I have 5 files.  3 of which are clean,
2 of which show:
X Window System Version 6.8.2
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux George 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 #8 SMP Fri Apr
29 13:09:31 MDT 2005 i686
Build Date: 30 June 2005
    Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
    to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
    (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
    (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Jul  1 13:43:26 2005
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
AUDIT: Fri Jul  1 13:43:28 2005: 7625 X: client 2 rejected from local host
  Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1

As you can see the date in the file shows July 1, both files have the
same date.  I have restarted my computer many time since then.  The
newest log is from yesterday and it seems clean:
X Window System Version 6.8.2
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux George 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 #8 SMP Fri Apr
29 13:09:31 MDT 2005 i686
Build Date: 07 July 2005
    Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
    to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
    (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
    (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Jul 15 14:43:23 2005
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

at one point yesterday gdm did run and that is when it told me I had no
screens or XDMCP was turned off.

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