Bug 224 – gdm does not work

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Naresh Donti 2002-01-18 16:44:46 UTC]

I have DISPLAYMANAGER set to gdm in rc.conf
I typed /etc/init.d/xdm start.
After this, X starts, then exits, X starts then exits in an infinite loop

[Comment 1 Mikael Hallendal (hallski) (RETIRED) 2002-01-18 17:44:21 UTC]

Does startx work?

The loop isn't infinite, it tries a number of times to start X and if it fails
it stops after a while. This mostly means that your X-config is broken.

[Comment 2 Kent Pirkle 2002-01-18 22:53:05 UTC]

I'm having the same problem. I've got X running, with GNOME, starting it from
startx with an .xinitrc file. But, gdm won't start.

[Comment 3 Mikael Hallendal (hallski) (RETIRED) 2002-01-19 03:28:43 UTC]

hmm .. ok, so it's not X settings.
If you guys have media-libs/imlib-1.9.11 can you please try to downgrade to
media-libs/imlib-1.9.10 and see if that helps?

I had the same problem and downgraded (and then it worked), the problem is that
I'm not sure if that was the only thing I did.

[Comment 4 Naresh Donti 2002-01-19 12:07:19 UTC]

My X config works too. I will downgrade imlibs this evening and see how it goes.

[Comment 5 Kent Pirkle 2002-01-19 13:47:55 UTC]

Downgrading imlib and recompiling gdm fixed the problem on my system. 

[Comment 6 Mikael Hallendal (hallski) (RETIRED) 2002-01-19 14:05:34 UTC]

I have masked imlib >= 1.9.11.

[Comment 7 Sander Graswinckel 2003-01-19 09:27:59 UTC]

I have the same problem. However, when I start gdm from the command line it
works fine. So for some reason running from the init script seems to cause a
problem. Very strange. I can't figure out what's happening here. I will try the
imlib trick.