Re: GNOME login fails
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 09:24 +0200, Christoph Bier wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> since yesterday I can't log into GNOME anymore. The failsafe session
> works however. I get a message that the last session did last less
> than 10 seconds and that there may be not enough space left on my
> hard disk. There is enough space and I can't find anything special
> in .xsession-errors:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> .xsession-errors:
> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w
> /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h ""
> -l ":0" "chris"
> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> chris@lotus:~$ df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 942M 392M 503M 44% /
> tmpfs 251M 4.0K 251M 1% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda6 4.6G 3.8G 626M 86% /var
> /dev/hda7 942M 17M 878M 2% /tmp
> /dev/hda8 2.8G 1.5G 1.2G 55% /usr
> /dev/hda9 3.3G 2.8G 319M 90% /usr/local
> /dev/hda10 25G 17G 6.8G 71% /home
> /dev/hdb5 28G 17G 9.6G 64% /multimedia
> tmpfs 10M 616K 9.4M 7% /dev
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> `aptitude install -f' tells me that nothing has to be done.
>
> Two days ago gdm was upgraded, so I installed the older version
> (gdm_2.6.0.8-1_i386.deb) again. But it didn't help and I upgraded
> again. I use Sarge with a few backports (teTeX, vorbis-tools,
> libxrender1).
>
> Can anybody help me? I already asked on the german mailing list
> yesterday but without any results. I also found a message in the
> archives describing the same problem[1] but without a solution.
>
> Best regards,
> Christoph
>
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/10/msg01801.html
> --
> +++ Typografie-Regeln: http://www.zvisionwelt.de/typokurz.pdf (1.4)
>
>
Hi.
The following line in my desktop machine's (Sarge).xsession file caused
the same message:
"xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults"
In recovery mode I moved .xsession to xsession, and logon was normal.
I don't think I'd upgraded gdm when this occured.
Also after upgrading gdm on another machine (Sarge), XFree86 was taking
99% of the cpu according to top. I killed it with kill -9 pid, but it
restarted and reached the same duty cycle. On reboot XFee86 returned to
normal.
HTH
C
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