On 22 Mar 2001 23:42:04 -0800, Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Well, by using startx to bring up the xserver and then switching back to > the console I can manually bring up gnome-terminal and even start sawfish > as my window manager. I just think whatever startup stuff that is supposed > to run is bombing. Attempting to log in via gdm, selecting any session or > the default session, just causes gdm to respawn the xserver and put up the > login dialog again, which is different from the behavior I saw yesterday, > but I don't know that I changed anything...
The thing GNOME runs on startup is "gnome-session". Try running that from a terminal window (just run one terminal, no windowmanager) and see if it prints any error messages? That might give some trace, as might /var/log/gdm/\:0.log - but I think that logfile thing was mentioned already? If gnome-session just hangs you can always try stracing it (prints a LOT of info about what it is doing but should show at least the point where it stops.. -run "strace gnome-session" from the terminal) Anyway, I hope you find some info on what is failing. Tuomas ________________________________________________________________________ Tuomas Kuosmanen - Art Director - Ximian - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com
