From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8292E1381F3 for ; Tue, 14 May 2013 00:20:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43BB8E0924; Tue, 14 May 2013 00:20:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm8-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (nm8-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.94.237.191]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D90BE0908 for ; Tue, 14 May 2013 00:20:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [66.94.237.192] by nm8.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 May 2013 00:20:02 -0000 Received: from [98.138.104.97] by tm3.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 May 2013 00:20:02 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp117.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 14 May 2013 00:20:02 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 74068.53261.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: 9MpKTb4VM1lbk4JuV4gGgYibTAO4WDUm8MoJH.23LCgJw8B JKCvfD0xdhT7pefmOUw4jNLtQ.wWp8V4XY43bTytqC3c7gKpyNVIKxbwFEhF aIr.AWOsPw57NiCsjcptQrOOEcRcKU3sO7sxLdYP7vvKALvo1RyYjmR9IyOA p.Rw1LXVtZa3d8ZFwkssCMLJdwFI2GhiWN_3hDwtIEZUcIwQfyuavaYxcUFU EpCRQrxovdIQTnfeUxaDSME8ix0x_ID7X24I1PlAq3wQOMG_Q2Y0fmi_wSjc dLPgSR2.h2yr.Tnj3fcEk7Cp.oaFdMgTV8xbX2o3EIjrAndT6n9GFq6ZDp.S f6hfsx5iaWWLtNKY3z5u1L5BdfINPaaP81q5E8JtWCC5sG.x7LjKFTMp4tOu RR28W..imzZUPlc.AmNtqvxgsOlwy_NGsLtB.Wyqkm5edxlXn6qXPMFA7Uh3 dM_IrIdwQoUdQh23ksGVUh8.Kh922gBMPpZ.hbmWW9a7z8RGGnUQrPNIY5oK O1.Ax.ZI7xgK45QhEipbRSl26sHT9 X-Yahoo-SMTP: oM3WcDSswBC7zv73TQKEsi7eAZ0- X-Rocket-Received: from [192.168.1.2] (w41ter@69.234.180.82 with plain) by smtp117.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 May 2013 00:20:02 +0000 UTC Message-ID: <51918331.1040407@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 17:20:01 -0700 From: walt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome not working References: <10356.1368443162@ccs.covici.com> In-Reply-To: <10356.1368443162@ccs.covici.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7265de51-276b-4cd8-9d9f-0851eb524e43 X-Archives-Hash: 1940798858f4b20bd0cc989a95c326d6 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.