During bootup xdm starts gdm properly, screen changes resolution (goes black, flickers, heads back to text mode) However, it doesn't actually give me a login window. If I log in as root afterwards and do /etc/init.d/xdm status, it tells me it's running. If I do /etc/init.d/xdm restart, I get a proper gdm screen that works. ( So it isn't a malconfigured X server ) gnome-base/gdm-2.20.10-r2 x11-apps/xinit-1.2.0-r2 Reproducible: Always
Please check ~/.xsesion-errors to see if anything is failing. Might benefit to compare the outputs from the failed and successful runs. Just for sanity, you could also check the /var/log/Xorg.0.log after the first (failed) run as well as dmesg output for clues.
There is no generated ~/.xsession-errors because you never log in in the first place, it just launches gdm, gdm starts the greeter, greeter shuts down again, gdm doesn't respawn greeter. I'll attach gdm's Xorg.log, real xorg log and play spot the difference, but I didn't see any when I was investigating
Created attachment 212215 [details] Xorg.log - failed gdm
Created attachment 212217 [details] gdm.log - failed gdm
Created attachment 212219 [details] Xorg.log - manually restarted gdm
Created attachment 212220 [details] gdm log - manually restarted gdm
Did you put "xdm" in the "boot" runlevel or in "default"? Thanks
rc-config show boot |grep xdm - Returns false rc-config show default |grep xdm: xdm [started] xdm-setup [started]
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Checked, gdm 2.28.x works properly, but still doesn't give me remote logins, so I'm back to this version, that doesn't work preoperly. Adding a service xdm restart in local isn't too fun but...
Could you try _not_ putting xdm in _any_ runlevels and running it manually after the boot finishes? Thanks
(In reply to comment #12) > Could you try _not_ putting xdm in _any_ runlevels and running it manually > after the boot finishes? > > Thanks > Done, works.
(In reply to comment #13) > Done, works. Ok, so my feeling here is that gdm/X are started before another service and somehow gdm/X don't like that. NB : - I say gdm/X because there's yet no way to tell which one is really failing - I have no idea how to debug openrc - I have no idea how to debug gdm Now on to your setup : - Is your openrc using parallel start-up? If so, try turning it off. - Do you use special admin "stuff" (nscd, pam modules, ldap, ...) - Did you configure gdm in any way? To be perfectly honest, this is going to be hard to debug since I have _no_ idea what could be causing this. Thanks
(In reply to comment #14) > (In reply to comment #13) > > Done, works. > > Ok, so my feeling here is that gdm/X are started before another service and > somehow gdm/X don't like that. > > NB : > - I say gdm/X because there's yet no way to tell which one is really failing > - I have no idea how to debug openrc > - I have no idea how to debug gdm > > Now on to your setup : > - Is your openrc using parallel start-up? If so, try turning it off. > - Do you use special admin "stuff" (nscd, pam modules, ldap, ...) > - Did you configure gdm in any way? > > To be perfectly honest, this is going to be hard to debug since I have _no_ > idea what could be causing this. Welcome to my world, I used to maintain this thing ;P Lets see if I can dig up some more info on OpenRC then, the old init-style system used to have a way of showing the real dependency-startorder tree that we had, but right now it seems that openrc isn't completely documented.. From the precursor look, it seems that It's not using parallel startup, I'll peek at adding some startup latencies and see if that sorts it.
Peeking more, I wouldn't guess it's an ordering issue: Mounting network filesystems Starting gpm Setting up gdm Starting avahi-dnsconfd Starting distccd Starting fcron Starting ntpd Starting postfix Starting S.M.A.R.T. Starting sshd Starting local -- - The only thing I can imagine that would fark gdm would be ntpd.
> -- - The only thing I can imagine that would fark gdm would be ntpd. > Appears my guess was correct, if I modify xdm startup script to add "uses ntpd" it resorts them and appears to function.
(In reply to comment #17) > Appears my guess was correct, if I modify xdm startup script to add "uses ntpd" > it resorts them and appears to function. Why ?! o_0
(In reply to comment #18) > (In reply to comment #17) > > Appears my guess was correct, if I modify xdm startup script to add "uses ntpd" > > it resorts them and appears to function. > > Why ?! o_0 > Well, A first guess would be that gdm-2.20 (2.28 worked fine) has some issues with a 1-2 hour negative drift while it's starting up?
X itself it not that happy about clock drifts especially if it happens backwards. It used to cause locks on one of my machines for years if I had ntpd enabled.
anyway, not a gnome problem afaik, maybe xdm init script needs an "after ntpd" dependency. Moving to x11.
This has changed completely now with gdm-3.12 and systemd
