Re: Help with GDM
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:35:45AM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> I've just upgrade from Debian 2.1 to unstable, and i have
> everything working except gdm. X comes up, and i can see that
> /etc/gdm/Init/Default is being run because the xsetroot command
> there turns the background blue, but this script does not
> complete because the xterm it's supposed to run never appears.
What xterm? There shouldn't be any xterm until after you've logged in
(if your ~/.xsession starts one). Are you talking about xconsole? It's
not running here with a mostly default GDM setup.
> Then X dies. This happens about 5 more times, and then i'm left
> with X running, along with my xterm and gdmlogin. gdm is no
> longer running at this point. gdmlogin reads in my username and
> password, but then disappears, but both X and the xterm are still
> running. I have to ctrl-alt-backspace it.
I suspect a deeper X problem first. Kill gdm and make sure X works.
> Attached are the relevant parts of /var/log/syslog and the only
> two files i've modified from the default debian install,
> /etc/gdm/Init/Default and /etc/gdm/gdm.conf.
>From your syslog, it looks like gdm is respawning over and over. You
don't have it running from /etc/inittab do you? You don't also have xdm
running on the same VT do you?
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