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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 03:29:25PM +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> > I stopped/zapped xdm, ran startx and from an xterm I was able to run |
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> > fluxbox which started OK. So, I am not sure if you are right that the |
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> > start up script crashes (I wonder, shouldn't I see something in the logs |
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> > about it?) If it crashed wouldn't it also crash when called from within |
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> > an xterm? When I ran etc-update I had to update a number of scripts |
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> > (some of them were trivial - automerged) and some of them were related to |
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> > halt.sh, and so on, but I cannot recall any xdm related scripts. Is |
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> > there an etc-update history somewhere on my machine? |
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> I didn't mean the xdm script (which, obviously, works fine), but the |
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> script started when you log in. The one in sessions is probably the one. |
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Yes, I actually saw for a moment the message that comes up on xdm saying that |
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the login was successful, but a few seconds later I am dumped back into the |
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login screen. |
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> Actually, how it works: xdm starts X and shows the login screen. When |
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> you log in, it starts something on the X server. When the something |
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> stops (for any reason), xdm restarts X and shows the login screen again. |
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> So I think the thing started by xdm terminates too early for some |
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> reason, crash was the first idea I got. All this is just a guess, how it |
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> looks to me, I do not say it is the only possible cause (crashing X |
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> could be the cause too, and xdm would just restart it). |
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Progress so far: |
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revdep-rebuild did not pick up anything. Then I noticed that kgpg was |
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complaining about the gpg agent not having started up. Looking closer I |
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noticed some error messages on the terminal that I started fluxbox from, |
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about libcrypto.so.0.9.8. So I reran revdep-rebuild -X -v --library |
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libcrypto.so.0.9.8 and it is now emerging the best part of 38 packages. |
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Let's see if this fixes it. I wonder why I am the only one complaining about |
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this problem. Are your PCs running OK? I have not tried updating any other |
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machines of mine until I can get Xorg on this laptop up & running again. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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