RE: X login keeps repeating
It commonly happens on VMWare as well. From observation it seems like the
modeswitching to another graphics mode fails, causing the X server to crash.
At that point XDM sees that there is no X server running and launches the
login shell.
If it started after upgrading Mozilla, it may (in your case) be a bad shared
lib somewhere, it happened to me with the default (M14).
Helix-Gnome (gdm) works fine, as it launches straight into the correct mode
for the terminal, not needing to switch modes on the fly.
Jeroen T Wenting
jwenting@hornet.demon.nl
ICQ UIN #9191966
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (Michael Stipe)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Esko Lehtonen [mailto:esko.lehtonen@pp.htv.fi]
> Sent: 02 September 2000 11:57
> To: The List
> Subject: Re: X login keeps repeating
>
>
>
> Hello
>
> I had the same problem, though the "looping" eventually lead to total
> freezing of X.
>
> It appeared when I had installed mozilla M17-3 from woody.
> (My system is
> still mostly potato.) First time I solved it installing gdm
> again. Then
> I tried mozilla again, crash, and I had to install helixgnome which
> works fine now.
>
> I have no idea why this happens.
>
> - Esko
>
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 12:14:48AM -0400, Mark Simos wrote:
> > I am messing around with debian 2.2 in a VMware window in
> my win2k box,
> > so it is all in vga mode and that is cool with me. i do have a weird
> > problem going on though...
> >
> > when i install a window manager (xdm, gdm, etc.):
> >
> > it prompts me for user/pass at boot.
> > I enter it.
> > it prompts me for user/pass
> > I enter it
> > it prompts me for user pass
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >
> > you get the idea, it loops. this happens regardless of root or my
> > account. I have no clue what would cause this to happen. I
> can usually
> > do a ctrl-alt-backspace and a quick alt-f2 that will get me
> to another
> > text box and let me reboot or uninstall the package, but it
> sucks that i
> > can't use a window manager
>
>
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