On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Eli Segal wrote: > yesterday again ! when i went out of fvwm to gdm > it lock on gdm and nothing worked even SysRq didn't > (and i have and tested it) > this is very strange as in happens only when I'm on gdm > Anyhow i moved to xdm and i'll see if it happen again. > > OT : I found some really nice XDM screenshots with their files .... > http://xdm.house.cx/gallery/xdm
I would stick with either gdm or kdm. I personally choose gdm, because I would rather have something I could configure from its config files, and not only using its graphical front-end (e.g: in the case it doesn't start). KDM has a frightening warning about where its original config files don't reside. I saw zero documentation about where the original config files do reside. And back to your original post: What about debug mode? What about logs? As for debug mode: search for "debug" in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf . As for the logs: most of them reside on /var/log/gdm , IIRC. If something manages to lock your console really bad, it is probably the X server itself, and the the DM. If you have a network, connect from a different machine and try killing the X server and/or gdm: one thing that may be able to reset things is if another X server will run on that display, or if an X server will run on another display. (so maybe try running "xinit /usr/X11R6/bin/twm -- :1" . Though you may need to be root to run this as a non-local user) -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
