Ok, I recently update my box, then, when finished boot, my screen started to *flicker", suddendly I got this message: "The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds. It is likely Something bad is going on. Waiting for 2 minutes before trying again on display :0." I was trying to know if I was able to run my system with: "startx", with my normal user I could not run it but, with my *root* I got in, my screen every two minutes was saying that message again. Reading a little bit, I noticed that *GDM* might be the problem, so I unmerged *GDM* and installed *SLIM*, nice, my screen works perfect without that message, but, my normal user doesn't work, when I try to login in *SLIM* with my normal user says: "failed to execute login command". Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.6.7 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1, 2.6.28-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_4300_@_1.80GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:00:01 +0000 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/cmake: 2.6.2-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.3.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1 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="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages paralell-fetch parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.localhost.net.ar/" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl additions alsa amd64 amd64codecs apache2 automount avahi beagle berkdb bzip2 cairo cdr cdrom cli cracklib crypt ctype dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread ffmpeg filter firefox fortran gdbm gif glib glitz gnome gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpg lame libburn libwww midi mmx mp3 mpeg mplayer msn mudflap multilib mysql nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl php png pppd python qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl-image session spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcpd truetype unicode usb vcdinfo vcdx vorbis wav wavpack xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 181133 [details] Xorg LOG
Created attachment 181134 [details] SLIM log
Created attachment 181136 [details] My XORG configuration file
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that you're running on unstable packages: here I'm on x86 stable (except for a bunch of packages listed on package.keywords), I upgraded last night and everything is working fine.
when using gdm, what does the Xorg.0.log shows ? If gdm doesn't come up, it's most often because it couldn't start X.
please get back to us.
