GDM issues

[Magnus Therning]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:17:28PM -0600, thephotoman wrote:
>It seems that I'm having a problem with GDM.  It keeps crashing the X
>servers in Warty.  I cannot use the GDM from Hoary, as it depends on
>Gnome 2.9, which is not a comfortable desktop (perhaps because it's an
>experimental release--anyway, I've previously documented my problems
>with it--and until somebody can tell me how to edit menus in Gnome 2.9,
>I'm not switching).  What do I need to do?

The first thing I'd do is to verify that it really is GDM causing your
problems. I can be a bit anal about setting up new Linux macines, but I
never install GNOME (or GDM) before I know I have an X setup that works.
To verify that X works I use startx and the default WM (TWM), any
problems I run into I fix and then I go ahead and install GNOME and GDM.

What you can start with doing is to go to a console, log in as root,
then kill GDM (/etc/init.d/gdm stop). Take another console and start X
(startx). If you get a working X environment (likely with a _very_ bad
WM, that's TWM) you can be reasonably sure GDM is the culprit. Otherwise
you need to fix your X setup.

/M

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