gdm fails to start
I have a system on which gdm refuses to start. The X server starts each
time, seemingly successfully, then quits before gdm displays. This
happens 6 times before gdm gives up for a few minutes, though it does
not seem to realize that X doesn't start successfully as it doesn't pop
up the failure notice which I have seen when X is misconfigured. The
problem exists only for gdm, as 'startx' is able to get GNOME started
without problems. I have tried purging gdm, as well as all of X and
related libraries, even deleting all of /etc/X11. It still suffers the
same problem after reinstallation of these packages. The machine is
running Sarge which a few unstable packages. I also have an unstable
machine which runs the same version of gdm just fine.
Does anybody know what could cause this? I have tried everything I could
think of short of a full reinstallation, which I am not keen on doing as
it should not be necessary.
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