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List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    [gentoo-desktop] failed gdm login but successful via startx
From:       "Matthew M. Austin" <maustin () otsys ! com>
Date:       2002-12-05 21:23:01
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Greetings,

anyone have any idea why I'd be able to successfully create a gnome 
session via startx but not via gdm?

Failsafe gnome runs under gdm but not a standard login . . . the 
splashscreen comes up but then nothing else.  After a brief pause gdm 
restarts itself.

I am running the latest gnome gdm and xfree.

For startx to function I've created a .xinitrc:
# this is it
gnome-session

# end of .xinitrc

I created a dummy user with fresh user default config files and its no 
go outside of failsafe mode.

The user .gnomerc-errors reads
------------------------------
** ERROR **: Failed to match any font. This could be due to a broken Xft 
configuration, or if you run XFree 4.1.0 due to a bug in libXrender. For 
more information about this, read 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68030

aborting...
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I am running a 4.2 xfree and have tried disabling XFt as suggested in 
the post with no change.

-matthew


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