GDM issues

[thephotoman]

Magnus Therning wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Then the problem is definitely with GDM.  startx works as long as I'm 
not using GDM as my window manager.  How do I fix the problem, then?