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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? Did you |
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check the usual suspects (revdep-rebuild, re-emerging x11-drivers)? |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |
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