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Re: GDM and gnome session malfunction



Paul Scott wrote: 

> JoeHill wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Massive update last night, went really really well, so far just one small
> > issue so I'm happy.
> >
> > When I logged out and back in, GDM went haywire and could not start. There
> > was an error, but it was up on the screen and gone too quickly for me to
> > remember. It kept trying, so I managed to get to a prompt and kill gdm.
> >
> > Running startx and startxfce4 gave me xfce, but I do want to have Gnome
> > available, so I created an .xinitrc with 'exec gnome-session'. When I run
> > startx I just get a default X screen, ie. solid background, X cursor.
> >
> > I can totally do without GDM, but what is the proper invocation of Gnome
> > these days?
> >     
> 
> What do your logs say?  ( /var/log/Xorg.0.log )

Just 'mored' through /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/Xorg.1.log, I didn't see
any errors.

-- 
J


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