Hoary GDM Problem

Russell Cook ruscook at gmail.com
Tue May 10 01:54:33 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 18:35 -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 19:42 +1000, Russell Cook wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > my fathers machine has been running for a few weeks. All has been well
> > except this morning, he rang with a GDM problem. GDM starts, gets to the
> > pizza symbol and NEVER moves on.
> > 
> > I've killed X, used startx  from his account or mine and X is ok. I've
> > changed the graphical greeter in case that was corrupted but it made no
> > change. I've had a quick look at /var/log/messages and dmesg and can't
> > see anything there that looks like a graphics problem, besides X works
> > from startx.
> > 
> >  From the startx X session I ran Synaptic and did a reinstall of GDM and
> > GDM-themes. Still no luck.
> > 
> > The GDM log doesn't seem any different to my working machine so no clues
> > there.
> > 
> > Any advice would be appreciated.
> 
> can you see any error in ~/.xsession-errors ?
> 
> 

I'll look tonight, but  as we don't get the GDM login screen, we haven't
logged into any user account yet so I assume the problem is before that
point in the process.

Regards Russ
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