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George Roberts wrote: |
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>Edward Catmur wrote: |
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>>On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 23:05 -0600, George Roberts wrote: |
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>>>About a month or so ago I lost the ability to use my GDM to log in. I |
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>>>can log in using XDM which has to be called from the command line. When |
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>>>my system is booting it loads gdm, but when it finishes booting instead |
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>>>of starting X, it leaves me at the at the command line. I can then log |
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>>>in as root but when I type gdm it tells me gdm is already running. At |
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>>>one point it told me that I had no screens configured or XDMCP is |
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>>>disabled. I have unmerged gdm and re-emerged it. |
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>>>I have rebuilt my xorg.conf. I have removed my /etc/X11/gdm.conf and |
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>>>then ran gdmconfig. Even double checked rc.conf (no changes there). |
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>>>All of which has been a learning experience but is alas fruitless. |
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>>>/var/log/Xorg.0.log comes up clean execpt for a warning about APM and a |
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>>>warning while probing the nvidia video card. |
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>>>All hints will be tried and greatly appreciated. |
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>>>Thanks in advance. |
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>>"rm /var/run/gdm.pid"? |
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>That did not help. :-( Still no joy. |
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Remove /var/lib/init.d/started/xdm and start xdm: |
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/etc/init.d/xdm start |
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Do you get any errors on boot or in /var/log/gdm.log? |
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