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On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: |
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> Hello |
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> On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:48:52AM +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> > Happy New Year to all! |
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> > I find my self in a bit of a pickle after a recent emerge. When I |
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> > enter my username+passwd at the xdm login screen it sort of tries to |
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> > load up fluxbox, but within a second or so it returns to the login |
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> > screen. I can't see anything worth mentioning in the logs. I have |
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> > downgraded baselayout, sysvinit and freetype but the problem remains. |
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> > Any ideas? These are the packages emerged recently: |
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> This sounds to me like the fluxbox starter (I'm not sure if fluxbox by |
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> itself or some script that starts it with one or two other programs) |
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> crashes. Did you try running revdep-rebuild? |
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Thanks, I am running it now. It only wants to remerge: |
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All prepared. Starting rebuild... |
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emerge --oneshot -v =media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616 |
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=media-libs/libquicktime-1.0.1 =media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.8 |
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I believe this is because of the media-libs/x264-svn-20070924 emerged package. |
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> And, if you want to experiment, you can start X from vt, lets say: |
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> X :1.0 (on :0.0, it is already running with xdm) |
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> then switch back to vt (probably different one) and start an xterm |
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> DISPLAY=:1.0 xterm |
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> then switch back to your new X (ctrl+f8 -- f7 is the xdm one) and try |
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> starting fluxbox from the xterm to see what happens. |
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> Did it help? |
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I stopped/zapped xdm, ran startx and from an xterm I was able to run fluxbox |
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which started OK. So, I am not sure if you are right that the start up |
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script crashes (I wonder, shouldn't I see something in the logs about it?) |
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If it crashed wouldn't it also crash when called from within an xterm? When |
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I ran etc-update I had to update a number of scripts (some of them were |
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trivial - automerged) and some of them were related to halt.sh, and so on, |
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but I cannot recall any xdm related scripts. Is there an etc-update history |
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somewhere on my machine? |
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BTW, this is what I have under /etc/X11/Sessions/fluxbox: |
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eval "$(gpg-agent --daemon)" |
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/usr/bin/startfluxbox |
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kill `echo ${GPG_AGENT_INFO} | cut -d ':' -f 2` |
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Thank you very much for your help! |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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