On system start kdm don`t work, with this messages: kdm[3169]: X server startup timeout, terminating kdm[3169]: X server for display :0 cannot be started, session disabled After /etc/init.d/xdm restart it starting normally. I`m trying to set ServerTimeout in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc even 240, but it`s not help. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.start the system 2.wait until kdm starts Actual Results: black screen with a blinking dash Expected Results: starting kdm normally Portage 2.2_rc23 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1, 2.6.28-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8400_@_3.00GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.3.3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=native -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=native -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/ " LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_ALL="" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/kde-testing /usr/local/portage/layman/mozilla /usr/local/portage/layman/science /usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay /usr/local/portage/myoverlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode evo fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gpm hal iconv isdnlog jpeg kde libnotify logitech-mouse mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection reiser4 samba sdl session smp spl sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log after kdm fails. I've experienced this problem too, and for me Xorg fails when trying to initialize the Nvidia GLX extension. And you're using Nvidia, just like me. I haven't tried /etc/init.d/xdm restart though.
Okay, I restarted xdm, and it does work like you said. I'm using AMD64 like you, could anyone confirm if it works with nvidia-drivers on x86?
I've experienced a similar problem here with kdm-3.5.10, also having an amd64 system and a nVidia graphics card. It seems that some drivers (or maybe device files in /dev?) are not fully initialized when booting the system. When the boot process is complete, I can log into the system in text mode and run `/etc/init.d/xdm restart`. Putting a short pause into the xdm init script solved the problem.
Same problem here for a long time. Error message: Apr 19 08:24:54 faultier acpid: client connected from 2667[0:0] Apr 19 08:24:54 faultier acpid: 1 client rule loaded Apr 19 08:24:55 faultier IRQ 16/nvidia: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs Apr 19 08:24:56 faultier acpid: client connected from 2667[0:0] Apr 19 08:24:56 faultier acpid: 1 client rule loaded Apr 19 08:25:02 faultier kdm: :0[2719]: Abnormal termination of greeter for display :0, code 1, signal 0 Apr 19 08:25:28 faultier login[2685]: ROOT LOGIN on 'tty1' Apr 19 08:25:35 faultier acpid: client connected from 2804[0:0] Apr 19 08:25:35 faultier acpid: 1 client rule loaded Apr 19 08:25:35 faultier IRQ 16/nvidia: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs Apr 19 08:25:36 faultier acpid: client connected from 2804[0:0] Apr 19 08:25:36 faultier acpid: 1 client rule loaded Apr 19 08:25:38 faultier kdm: :0[2811]: Abnormal termination of greeter for display :0, code 1, signal 0 Apr 19 08:25:42 faultier acpid: client connected from 2882[0:0] Apr 19 08:25:42 faultier acpid: 1 client rule loaded Apr 19 08:25:42 faultier IRQ 16/nvidia: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs Apr 19 08:25:44 faultier acpid: client connected from 2882[0:0] Apr 19 08:25:44 faultier acpid: 1 client rule loaded After a root-Login on the console I have to restart xdm several times. If the computer has a good day, then one time is enough. On other days I have to restart xdm 3 or 4 times to get the login screen. This behaviour occures for me since upgrading to 4.2.2. including the versions of the testings overlay (e.g. 4.1.85). System: amd64 Graphics card: nvidia
Driver issue, try different one it should start working.
Any updates on this? Is this still happening for you with kde 4.3 and latest nvidia driver? Thanks :)
(In reply to comment #6) > Any updates on this? Is this still happening for you with kde 4.3 and latest > nvidia driver? > > Thanks :) > Still happening for me in a setup with KDE 4.3.0, nvidia-drivers 185.18.31, two GeForce9500GT cards in an SLI setup logfile says [kdm] X server startup timeout, terminating [kdm] X server for display :0 cannot be started, session disabled restarting xdm works. At least the desktop looks much nicer than before. Klaas
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #6) > > Any updates on this? Is this still happening for you with kde 4.3 and latest > > nvidia driver? > > > > Thanks :) > > > > Still happening for me in a setup with KDE 4.3.0, nvidia-drivers 185.18.31, two > GeForce9500GT cards in an SLI setup > > logfile says > [kdm] X server startup timeout, terminating > [kdm] X server for display :0 cannot be started, session disabled > > restarting xdm works. At least the desktop looks much nicer than before. > > Klaas > +1 GeForce9200M GS card logfile says [kdm] X server startup timeout, terminating [kdm] X server for display :0 cannot be started, session disabled This troube become same time ago after update world at begining of september 2009.
reopen based on comment 7 and comment 8
Could this be related to the timeout set on kdm startup? Check OpenTimeout in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc - try increasing the value and see if that fixes kdm startup.
Same here. nvidia-drivers-185.18.31 + kde-meta-4.3.1 card: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9600M GS [10de:0648] (rev a1) I don't have any *Timeout* config in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
Same problem here (kdm-4.3.2, nvidia-drivers-180.60, xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2). Workarounded by increasing ServerTimeout from 15 to 30 in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
Same here (kdm-4.3.1-r2, nvidia-drivers-180.60, xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2). ServerTimeout helped too
Looking at my kdmrc, I see the following: # How long to wait before timing out a display connection attempt. # Default is 120 #OpenTimeout=120 I'll check the original file in the tarball later and will uncomment it to see if we get this fixed.
Confirming problem but with Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller, kdm-4.3.5, xf86-video-intel-2.9.2 and xorg-server-1.6.5-r1. Workaround for me was setting ServerTimeout=30 (default ServerTimeout=15) in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc.
ServerTimeout is set to 30 now (in 4.4.2 and live ebuilds in overlay), thanks for the report and all the feedback