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Re: ?dm startup problems



On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 08:37:32AM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> 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

If have the same problem with gdm. If I use the console and startx
everything works fine so it appears to be a gdm related problem. I'm
also using debian unstable with gdm 2.4.1.6-1
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