Re: gdm does not start

On 4/15/06, Antonio Paiva < arpaiva@cnel.ufl.edu> wrote:

Seems the power failure disrupted your file system.
Try to re-install the X server and font packages.

Antonio

Dmitri Minaev wrote:
> After a power failure (not necessarily *because* of it, though), gdm
> does not start anymore. It starts the X server but does not give the
> login window, then it closes X and attempts to start once again. At
> last, gdm gives the following message: "The display server has been
> shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds, it is likely that
> something bad is going on. I will wait for 2 minutes before trying
> again on display :0."
>
> Still, I can run X with startx and I get full Gnome desktop. The X and
> gdm logs do not show anything especially serious.
>
> The last lines of XFree86.0.log:
> (II) Generic Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
> Warning: font renderer for ".pcf" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.Z" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.gz" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".snf" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".snf.Z" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".snf.gz" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".bdf" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.Z" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.gz" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".pmf" already registered at priority 0
> Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
> (II) I810(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
> (II) I810(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xd0232000 at 0x40292000
> (WW) I810(0): Setting the original video mode instead of restoring
>       the saved state
> (II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 8
> (II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 0
> (II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 2
> (II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 1
> (II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 3
> (II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 4
> (II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 5
> (II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 6
> (II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 7
>
> The last lines of gdm/:0.log:
> Module Loader present
> OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.8-2-686
> ( horms@tabatha.lab.ultramonkey.org) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian
> 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 Tue Aug 16 13:22:48 UTC 2005
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>          (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>          (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu Apr 13 14:39:49 2006
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
> Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_clip.o":
>  No symbols found
> Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_norm.o":
>  No symbols found
> Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_xform.o":
>  No symbols found
> Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_vertex.o":
>  No symbols found
> Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.o":  No
> symbols found
> Warning: font renderer for ".pcf" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.Z" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.gz" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".snf" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".snf.Z" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".snf.gz" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".bdf" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.Z" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.gz" already registered at priority 0
> Warning: font renderer for ".pmf" already registered at priority 0
> Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
>
> But in the /var/log/messages the following lines appear when I try to
> restart gdm:
> Apr 13 14:44:17 localhost kernel: mtrr: base(0xf0020000) is not
> aligned on a size(0x800000) boundary
> Apr 13 14:45:04 localhost last message repeated 5 times
>
> The system is mainly stable Debian running on IBM Thinkcentre M50,
> kernel 2.6.8-2-686. GDM version 2.6.0.8-1.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> With best regards,
> Dmitri Minaev
>

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