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List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-desktop] gdm is hozed!
From:       "Joseph Booker" <joe () neoturbine ! net>
Date:       2004-06-09 17:56:52
Message-ID: 33210.68.78.45.223.1086803812.squirrel () webmail ! neoturbine ! net
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fmouse-gentoo@fmp.com said:
> Something has changed in the past couple of days in the gentoo
> distribution
> of gdm or support files for it.  gdm fails repeatedly to start, finally
> giving me a message about how the display server has restarted 6 times,
> etc.
>
> I can still run my gnome desktop from a CLI prompt with startx, so it's
> not
> an X problem.  Each failure generates the same series of very cryptic log
> messages, e.g.
>
> Jun  2 20:06:08 [gdm] failsafe dialog failed (inhibitions: 0 0)
> Jun  2 20:06:08 [gdm] failsafe dialog failed (inhibitions: 0 1)
> Jun  2 20:06:08 [gdm] failsafe dialog failed (inhibitions: 1 1)
> Jun  2 20:06:12 [gdm] failsafe dialog failed (inhibitions: 0 0)
> Jun  2 20:06:12 [gdm] failsafe dialog failed (inhibitions: 0 1)
> Jun  2 20:06:12 [gdm] failsafe dialog failed (inhibitions: 1 1)
>
> Is this a known problem?  How can I fix it, or debug it further?  I can't
> find any other log references which seem to be relevant.
>

Look in your /var/log/* specifically Xorg.0.log Also stuff in
/var/lib/log/gdm/* files


If that doesn't help, strace through gdm and report the output in a bug

-- 
 Joe Booker

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