Bug 29092 – gdm fails to start

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Vano Beridze 2003-09-19 03:35:09 UTC]

epm -q gnome
gnome-2.4
epm -q gdm
gdm-2.4.1.6

make changes in /etc/rc.conf and set DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm"
rc-update add xdm default

reboot

gdm tries to start several times and fails.
a message dialog is displayed on a console:
[gdm] Failed to start the display server several times in a short time period;
disabling display :0

after doing manually
startx
gnome is starting, splash screen does not dissapear automatically. desktop area
remains black. panels are working.

I could provide more info if needed

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
gdm fails to start

Expected Results:  
gdm must start

everything was fine. I only upgraded from gnumeric 1.1.2 to 1.2.0 and it upgraded
libgsf from 1.8.1 to 1.8.2 and after that metalog 0.7 to 0.7-r1. and gdm stopped
working.
Portage 2.0.49-r4 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.22 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share
/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /opt/tomcat/conf /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/s
hare/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linu
x/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif jpeg libg++ libwww mad mik
mod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib g
dbm berkdb slang readline arts bonobo svga java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl per
l python esd imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk motif opengl mozilla cdr gtk2 oci8 -kde -
qt"

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2003-09-21 08:12:39 UTC]

login to a plain xterm (failsafe terminal or something like that) and run nautilus in a debugger and get a backtrace.

[Comment 2 Vano Beridze 2003-09-22 00:29:13 UTC]

attaching backtrace
gdb.txt

[Comment 3 Vano Beridze 2003-09-22 00:30:00 UTC]

Created attachment 18113 [details]
backtrace of nautilus in a debugger

[Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) 2003-10-12 09:36:18 UTC]

hmm missed replies on this (probably due to the bugzilla move), sorry for
this. Rebuild libgsf, usually helps. Some non-reproducable error there.

[Comment 5 foser (RETIRED) 2003-11-20 08:39:26 UTC]

no reply, closing