X is properly set up on my new system (I believe), and both KDE and Gnome are installed. Since the people who will be using it will be using KDE (almost) exclusively, I decided on kdm as a display manager. Normal users are able to log in, but unless they choose failsafe, the screen twitches a few times and comes straight back to the login screen. Identical behavior follows under gdm and xdm. Debug output from gdm shows that the child of the login manager (which I assume is gnome-session or its equivalent) dies instantly and returns 0. Failsafe mode (with one xterm) works, and I can then start a Gnome or KDE session by using the appropriate command, and the system works perfectly when using startx from a VC login.
And if you use gdm ?
This bug is reproducible under gdm, kdm, and xdm. Incidentally, this is on a brand-new box that I'm considering wiping and setting up differently anyway, so if you think that this bug is worth going after, I'll give you r00t on it.
Urk. Try the new setup, and see if it still occurs. My online time is a bit short, and erretic, so do not know if I will get the chance to have a look on your box. This is except if you are not going to reinstall in the next day or so, or are awake now ;-)
Gak! I'm awake and lively right now, but unfortunately I just took the box offline this morning due to lack of ethernet ports. I'll reconnect it as soon as I can if azarah will tell me when he needs it, at which time he'll be provided with SSH info. :-) Oh, and if it's wiped, it'll be done Saturday, since I'll be gone next week and it'll take nearly a week to recompile an entire system.
Just mail me what you need .... Ill hopefully be online same time tomorrow night. Last silly question .. do they have a ~/.xsession (the users that is) ?
Have the same problem sometimes....Well, like now ;) Easily reproducable by pressing <POWER OFF HERE> in a busy X-session ;) My X-session freezes when I use de DRI module under X and switch to console & back :'-( I have do a reset to use my machine again and afterwards gdm is unusable (Keeps saying there's already a display running on :0...When I opt for :1 --> Reset X ...When I don't --> Reset X Nothing helps....Cleaning /tmp or /var/run or /var/lib/gdm ...It keeps saying my DISPLAY won't react...Ofcourse not...There isn't any ;) Vaguely remember last time I emerged X again ...Luckily I'm not a processor ;) Shall I wait with that solution this time ? I mean if this happens to somebody without shell-experience there're lost... Ps. I had this with all 1.x releases...
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=1301&highlight=cannot+start+x Seems that a lot of more people are experiencing this :'-(
From: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=1301&highlight=cannot+start+x <quote> I emerged "gimp" and after it was merged I tried using "rc-update add gimp default" and got this error "/sbin/rc-update: /etc/init.d/gimp not found; aborting" can someone tellme what is it I'm doing wrong. </quote> Think you should read that again =)
Haha, Martin u'r right ! Bad link (but it seems to work for Christopher ;-? ) Rigo
