Re: Gdm is evil!

[Chris Schleifer <chris@analogweb.com>]

Hi,

Check /var/state/gdm/:0.log.
If it says something like:
AUDIT: Wed Aug 11 20:55:24 1999: 174 X: client 1 rejected from local host
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server

Then check bug #42636 : http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/42/42636.html
It's probably the reason as this causes the exact same behavior for me that your
getting.

Chris Schleifer

John Haggerty wrote:

> I have spent the past 5 hours bashing my brains out getting gdm to work on my
> system and it never will!
> I try to start it and it just displays a blank screen without the window popping
>
> up. I tried to do as the README.Debian said and to change the symlinksso that
> gdm and xdm are isolated in different runlevels. What I did was just to delete
> S99xdm (the symlink to /etc/init.d/xdm) so that it won't lock the system anymore
>
> however it still will not display anything I have installed all of the
> dependencies however it still hates me!
> The binary for the login interface program works but does nothing on it's own. I
>
> assume this is a problem with pam/config files. I looked at /etc/gdm/Init and
> say :0 and Default which together has only a single program called xsetroot and
> some rather cryptic arguments. This appears to be broken or what? Could someone
> please help me?
>
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