Re: ?dm startup problems

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Robert Rati (<r.rati@comcast.net>) wrote:

> I'm running Debian unstable with the DRI trunk ATI drivers, and gdm
> just
> stopped starting.  I used to use kdm as my display manager, but it
> exhibited the problems gdm is now displaying earlier.  When either
> display manager attempts to start, I see the normal gray background X
> startup and the X mouse cursor, but before the background and login
> manager load it appears to crash.  It tries to start several times,
> but
> is never able to.  I can't find any reasons for this in the messages
> or
> XFree86.0.log files.  kdm.log has this listed at the end:
> 
> AUDIT: Wed Sep  3 19:02:45 2003: 968 X: client 2 rejected from local
> host
>   Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server^M
> Xlib: Protocol not supported by server
> ^M
> kdm_greet: cannot connect to X server :0

Does logging in on a console and using startx work?

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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