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On Fri, Jun 08 2012, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Am 08.06.2012 16:22, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: |
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>> Just today I cannot log into one of my machines (the other has not had |
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>> an emerge since early yesterday and is ok). |
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>> With gdm, I don't get a welcome screen. Just the funny cursor going |
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>> round and round. |
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>> With xdm, I do get the login screen, but both for me and for root, |
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>> after entering username/passwd the login box goes away for a few seconds |
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>> and then reappears. |
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>> For both root and me .xsession-errors has just one line |
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>> /usr/lib64/X11/xdm/Xsession: line 71: exec: xsm: not found |
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>> I do not have xsm merged on either the failed or working machine. |
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>> I will merge it now, but wonder why, if needed, update world didn't say |
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>> so. |
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>> Any help would be appreciated. |
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>> thanks, |
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>> allan |
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> From what you describe, it sounds more like X-Server crashing than XDM |
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> or GDM having a problem. Does `startx` work from the terminal? |
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Right. I tried xdm to rule out gdm. But your test is better and startx |
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does not work. |
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> Did you check the usual suspects (revdep-rebuild, re-emerging |
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> x11-drivers)? |
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I did revdep-rebuild after the emerge world, but did it again now and it |
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passes. |
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I just now remerged the drivers, no help. |
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I do have the new polkit walt mentioned and there are bug reports on it, |
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for example 42013. |
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thanks, |
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allan |
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