problems starting X in woody

[Marcelo Chiapparini <chiappa@uerj.br>]

Hello,

I upgraded to woody from potato. I installed XFree86 4.1 and xserver-xfree86. 
The chipset, 3dfx Woodoo3, is detected fine. I had problems trying to run gdm, 
and I was adviced from this list to reinstall xfonts-base (thanks Thomas!). 
What happened then was that the initial windows o gdm opened fine, but I was not 
able to login in any session. Only the gnomesafe option in gdm worked. 
I decided to deinstall gdm and wait until be able to start the X manager from 
the command line before install a session manager again. But now I can't start 
X. For example:

1) If I type "wmaker" in order to login in a WindowMaker session I get:
/usr/bin/WindowMaker fatal error: could no open display ""

2) If I use "gnome-session" in order to login in a Gnome 1.4 session I get:

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.Ice-unix should be set to root
SESSION_MANAGER=local.nostromo:/tmp/.ICE-unix/194

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gtk_WARNING **: cannot open display


Honestly, I have no idea what is going wrong. And I need to put the machine to 
work! Any help will be *very* appreciated!

Thanks!

Marcelo 

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Marcelo Chiapparini
DFT-IF/UERJ
chiappa@uerj.br