Zac Medico wrote:
> 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
Technically both are started at the end of the boot sequence. However
if I use "/etc/init.d/xdm zap" and then "/etc/init.d/xdm start" I am
now getting a message "Setting up gdm ..." followed by "ERROR: could not
open the Display Manager..." and then it hangs and I have to ctrl-c out
of it. When I type xdm, it brings up the xdm log in screen and I can
get back into gnome. I want my gdm back!
Now my /var/log/xdm.log is now showing:
_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/George:0
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
X Window System Version 6.8.2
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux George 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 #8 SMP Fri Apr
29 13:09:31 MDT 2005 i686
Build Date: 07 July 2005
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Jul 16 20:45:27 2005
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Using vt 7
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