Re: gdm fails to start

[Mike <mike@midgard.no-ip.org>]

Alban Browaeys wrote:
> Le Mon, 04 Apr 2005 20:37:46 -0400, Michael Spang a écrit :
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> > I have a system on which gdm refuses to start. The X server starts each 
> > time, seemingly successfully, then quits before gdm displays. This 
>
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> Do you have anything related to gnome/x in /usr/local ?
I guess so; see below.
> Does your /etc/hosts contains:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
yep
> Do you have meaningfull errors report on the console if as root you start
> gdm from the command line ?
nope
> Have you changed your /etc/inittab to add more consoles ?
nope
> Or is this a vanilla installation ?
nope
> Cheers
> Alban
Aha! There were umpty billion truetype fonts in /usr/local/share/fonts 
that upon removing gdm works. I'm sure they are there for a reason, yet 
I'm not keen on trying them one at a time to see which break gdm. Any 
insights on this?

Thanks for the great suggestions!

Michael Spang