[plug] xfree wierdness

[Craig Dyke]

Craig

I use a source distro and have recently rebuilt whole system but wasn't
aware of changing any of the compilation settings.

I have also removed kdm so now i am only concerned with getting gdm working.

And., no nothing in messages.

What possible configuration problem should i perhaps look for?

Craig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Ringer" <craig at postnewspapers.com.au>
To: "Perth Linux User Group" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] xfree wierdness


> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 19:59, Craig Dyke wrote:
>
> > I have attached my xfree log but am unable to see problem except some
font
> > stuff
> > which i always seem to get.
>
> OK. That suggests to me that your X server is working fine, but the GDM
> greeter is terminating as soon as it launches. I take it nothing is
> reported in /var/log/messages or /var/log/gdm/* ?
>
> The fact that both gdm and kdm do this is particularly puzzling. If it
> were just one, I'd suspect some sort of configuration breakage. So, if I
> understand correctly:
>
> (login as self)
> $ startx
>
> works fine, but
>
> (login as root)
> # /etc/init.d/gdm start
>
> and
>
> (login as roto)
> # /etc/init.d/kdm start
>
> both cause the X server to repeatedly restart without providing a login
> screen?
>
> Have you recently installed anything - say, NVidia driver updates,
> security fixes possibly involving X/KDM/GDM, etc? Any changes you can
> think of?
>
> Craig Ringer
>
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