Edward Catmur wrote:

>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
>>can log in using XDM which has to be called from the command line.  When
>>my system is booting it loads gdm, but when it finishes booting instead
>>of starting X, it leaves me at the at the command line.  I can then log
>>in as root but when I type gdm it tells me gdm is already running.  At
>>one point it told me that I had no screens configured or XDMCP is
>>disabled.  I have unmerged gdm and re-emerged it.
>>I have rebuilt my xorg.conf.  I have removed my /etc/X11/gdm.conf and
>>then ran gdmconfig.  Even double checked rc.conf (no changes there).  
>>All of which has been a learning experience but is alas fruitless. 
>>/var/log/Xorg.0.log comes up clean execpt for a warning about APM and a
>>warning while probing the nvidia video card.
>>All hints will be tried and greatly appreciated.
>>Thanks in advance.
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>>
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>"rm /var/run/gdm.pid"?
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That did not help. :-(     Still no joy.
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