George Roberts wrote:
Pawel Nadolski wrote:
George Roberts wrote:
Edward Catmur wrote:
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 23:05 -0600, George Roberts wrote:
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.
"rm /var/run/gdm.pid"?
That did not help. :-( Still no joy.
Remove /var/lib/init.d/started/xdm and start xdm:
/etc/init.d/xdm start
Do you get any errors on boot or in /var/log/gdm.log?
I removed the above mentioned file, no differance. XDM starts fine, GDM
as I am told is running, but .
When I look at the log directory I have 5 files. 3 of which are clean,
2 of which show:
[snip]
at one point yesterday gdm did run and that is when it told me I had no
screens or XDMCP was turned off.
So you can't start either xdm or gdm from the /etc/init.d/xdm script? Do you have
DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" in /etc/rc.conf? What is the exact message when you do "/etc/init.d/xdm
start"? If it says that it's already running then normally if you kill the processes and run
"/etc/init.d/xdm zap" then it will get you to where you can start it. I use kdm and I've never had
to remove a pid file manually but maybe you do with gdm (like Ed said).
Zac
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