Bug#596196: kdm shows black screen instead of login
Subject: kdm shows black screen instead of login
Package: kdm
Version: 4:4.4.5-3
Severity: important
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Problem:
kdm shows a black screen
When it happens:
When kdm is started, I see a black screen (every time)
What I expected:
Some login input fields "user" and "password"
More info:
- It used to work with an earlier version of "stuff"
- I have been upgrading often in the last couple of weeks
This happened earlier this week (ie, in the last 7 days).
I'm not sure if kdm was upgraded recently. ... hmm,
nope. It was upgraded to the current version Aug 12.
- When I boot the machine, it does a normal boot of the
kernel and init scripts, then goes into graphical mode
and shows a black backlit screen with no mouse cursor.
- kdm is running.
- I can use the init scripts to kill off kdm and restart
it. "invoke-rc.d kdm stop; invoke-rc.d kdm start"
kdm stops and restarts as requested.
- after I stop kdm, I can run xinit or startx and I can see
some graphics.
- problem occurs with reported kernel and with
linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-686
- hardware is laptop, ThinkPad T43, type 1872WTE.
output from lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)
04:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
04:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
extracts from Xorg.0.log:
(egrep '(EE|WW)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log)
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
(EE) GLX error: Can not get required symbols.
(EE) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
(EE) GLX error: Can not get required symbols.
(EE) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
last section from /var/log/kdm.log:
X.Org X Server 1.7.7
Release Date: 2010-05-04
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 i686 Debian
Current Operating System: Linux spidy 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Aug 25 14:28:12 UTC 2010 i686
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 root=UUID=15c49a99-7c9a-49b6-b7d2-92eee917c9b9 ro acpi_sleep=s3_bios
Build Date: 04 September 2010 10:33:09PM
xorg-server 2:1.7.7-5 (Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>)
Current version of pixman: 0.16.4
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
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: Wed Sep 8 19:08:42 2010
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/options, it will be ignored in a future release.
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/bluez, it will be ignored in a future release.
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/madwifi, it will be ignored in a future release.
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/thinkpad, it will be ignored in a future release.
FATAL: Module fbcon not found.
SELinux: Disabled on system, not enabling in X server
(EE) GLX error: Can not get required symbols.
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad no synaptics event device found
Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
(EE) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
SELinux: Disabled on system, not enabling in X server
(EE) GLX error: Can not get required symbols.
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad no synaptics event device found
Query no Synaptics: 6003C8
(EE) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware.
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
QFont::fromString: Invalid description 'Serif,20,5,0,50,0'
QFont::fromString: Invalid description 'Sans Serif,10,5,0,50,0'
QFont::fromString: Invalid description 'Sans Serif,10,5,0,75,0'
I was unable to find out how serious the Synaptics and GLX errors
were, being unfamiliar with kdm and xorg generally.
Here is a list of when each dependency of kdm was upgraded
since Aug 8.
consolekit
debconf
2010-08-06 12:47:32 status installed debconf 1.5.33
2010-08-09 22:11:10 status installed debconf 1.5.35
kdebase-runtime
2010-08-10 19:12:27 status installed kdebase-runtime 4:4.4.5-1
kdebase-workspace-kgreet-plug
libc6
2010-08-06 11:45:25 status installed libc6 2.11.2-2
2010-09-04 10:23:49 status installed libc6 2.11.2-4
2010-09-07 09:10:26 status installed libc6 2.11.2-5
libck-connector0
libdbus-1-3
2010-08-09 20:46:06 status installed libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-3
libkdecore5
2010-08-09 20:47:06 status installed libkdecore5 4:4.4.5-1
libkdeui5
2010-08-09 20:47:07 status installed libkdeui5 4:4.4.5-1
libkio5
2010-08-09 20:47:07 status installed libkio5 4:4.4.5-1
libknewstuff2-4
2010-08-09 20:47:10 status installed libknewstuff2-4 4:4.4.5-1
libkworkspace4
2010-08-09 20:55:43 status installed libkworkspace4 4:4.4.5-1
2010-08-10 19:13:05 status installed libkworkspace4 4:4.4.5-2
2010-08-12 15:23:12 status installed libkworkspace4 4:4.4.5-3
libpam0g
2010-08-16 18:49:18 status installed libpam0g 1.1.1-4
2010-09-07 09:19:38 status installed libpam0g 1.1.1-6
libqimageblitz4
libqt4-svg
2010-09-07 09:25:26 status installed libqt4-svg 4:4.6.3-2
libqt4-xml
2010-09-07 09:25:24 status installed libqt4-xml 4:4.6.3-2
libqtcore4
2010-09-07 09:25:24 status installed libqtcore4 4:4.6.3-2
libqtgui4
2010-09-07 09:25:25 status installed libqtgui4 4:4.6.3-2
libstdc++6
libx11-6
libxau6
2010-08-09 20:50:17 status installed libxau6 1:1.0.6-1
libxdmcp6
libxtst6
2010-08-09 20:47:06 status installed libxtst6 2:1.1.0-3
lsb-base
fluxbox
2010-08-09 21:00:43 status installed fluxbox 1.1.1+dfsg2-1
2010-08-13 16:32:09 status installed fluxbox 1.1.1+git20100807.0cc08f9-1
kde-window-manager
2010-08-09 20:55:48 status installed kde-window-manager 4:4.4.5-1
2010-08-10 19:13:05 status installed kde-window-manager 4:4.4.5-2
2010-08-12 15:23:15 status installed kde-window-manager 4:4.4.5-3
kdebase
2010-08-09 20:55:53 status installed kdebase 5:64
konsole
2010-08-09 20:55:34 status installed konsole 4:4.4.5-1
logrotate
metacity
2010-08-09 20:56:53 status installed metacity 1:2.30.1-2
twm
xserver-xorg
2010-09-07 09:26:04 status installed xserver-xorg 1:7.5+7
xterm
2010-08-09 20:55:34 status installed xterm 261-1
kdepasswd
2010-08-09 20:55:48 status installed kdepasswd 4:4.4.5-1
linux-image
2010-08-09 20:48:04 status installed linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-18
2010-08-09 20:56:46 status installed linux-image-2.6-686 2.6.32+28
2010-08-09 20:56:46 status installed linux-image-686 2.6.32+28
2010-08-09 22:27:23 status installed linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-19
2010-08-13 16:32:07 status installed linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-20
2010-08-28 15:03:13 status installed linux-image-2.6.32-5-xen-686 2.6.32-21
2010-08-28 15:03:16 status installed linux-image-2.6-xen-686 2.6.32+28
2010-08-28 15:24:28 status installed linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-686 2.6.26-24lenny1
2010-09-04 10:34:46 status installed linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-21
2010-09-07 09:25:43 status installed linux-image-2.6.26-2-xen-686 2.6.26-25
I believe the problem started happening Sept 4 ish.
Please let me know if you need more info.
bjb
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Subject: kdm shows black screen instead of login
Package: kdm
Version: 4:4.4.5-3
Severity: important
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages kdm depends on:
ii consolekit 0.4.1-4 framework for defining and trackin
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.35 Debian configuration management sy
ii kdebase-runtime 4:4.4.5-1 runtime components from the offici
ii kdebase-workspace-kgreet-plug 4:4.4.5-3 KDE greet libraries for authentica
ii libc6 2.11.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libck-connector0 0.4.1-4 ConsoleKit libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libkdecore5 4:4.4.5-1 the KDE Platform Core Library
ii libkdeui5 4:4.4.5-1 the KDE Platform User Interface Li
ii libkio5 4:4.4.5-1 the Network-enabled File Managemen
ii libknewstuff2-4 4:4.4.5-1 the "Get Hot New Stuff" v2 Library
ii libkworkspace4 4:4.4.5-3 library for the kdebase workspace
ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libqimageblitz4 1:0.0.4-4 QImageBlitz image effects library
ii libqt4-svg 4:4.6.3-2 Qt 4 SVG module
ii libqt4-xml 4:4.6.3-2 Qt 4 XML module
ii libqtcore4 4:4.6.3-2 Qt 4 core module
ii libqtgui4 4:4.6.3-2 Qt 4 GUI module
ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.6-1 X11 authorisation library
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii libxtst6 2:1.1.0-3 X11 Testing -- Record extension li
ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages kdm recommends:
ii fluxbox [x-w 1.1.1+git20100807.0cc08f9-1 Highly configurable and low resour
ii kde-window-m 4:4.4.5-3 the K window manager (KWin)
ii kdebase 5:64 the K Desktop Environment, base ap
ii konsole [x-t 4:4.4.5-1 X terminal emulator
ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility
ii metacity [x- 1:2.30.1-2 lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii twm [x-windo 1:1.0.4-2 Tab window manager
ii xserver-xorg 2:1.7.7-5 Xorg X server - core server
ii xterm [x-ter 261-1 X terminal emulator
Versions of packages kdm suggests:
ii kdepasswd 4:4.4.5-1 graphical password changing utilit
-- debconf information:
kdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false
* shared/default-x-display-manager: kdm
kdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/kdm
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