Hoary GDM Problem

Russell Cook ruscook at gmail.com
Tue May 10 06:23:38 UTC 2005


Hi Daniel
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 21:00 -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-10-05 at 11:54 +1000, Russell Cook wrote:
> > > > 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.
> 
> if it is a gdm problem, maybe the error or problem would show up in one
> of the log files in  /var/log/gdm
> 

I'll grab the latest files in this directory tonight and post.
Thanks
Regards Russ

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