<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.6.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 18:35 -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> 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 ? </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> 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 </BODY> </HTML>