G5 w/ 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Wed May 4 03:23:46 UTC 2005 ppc64 PPC970FX, altivec supported PowerMac7,3 GNU/Linux. KDE 3.3. /etc/rc.conf contains: DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" Basically, kdm doesn't start up on bootup. X/kdm logs incessantly to syslog, from the moment the init-script runs until I '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' to stop it. It rotates the whole syslog collection faster than you can say "woah". It fills every inch of log files with: [kdm] X server startup timeout, terminating [kdm] X server termination timeout, killing Even if /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc timeout values, like OpenTimeout (in [X-*-Core]) and ServerTimeout (in [X-:*-Core]) do nothing. The timeouts seem to be occurring instantaneously and attempts are repeated instantly and indefinitely. Note that I _can_ startx successfully (I have exec startkde in my ~/.xinitrc, so startx does start kde). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Please see "Details" section. Actual Results: Please see "Details" section. Nothing happens except the logs continually fill up. Expected Results: Kdm should start. None
Never seen something like this... does it happen with newer versions of kdm, too?
does xdm start at boot if you have DISPLAYMANAGER="xdm"?
please please answer my question, because then we can see, if this problem is kdm or X related... please provide also your emerge --info output. :-)
user seems dead.. please reopen if you want provide more information :-)
Sorry for taking so long to respond.... In answer to your question: I haven't yet tried more recent versions of kdm... I'm not sure that any newer versions are are masked ~ppc64 yet. I'm intending on trying to debug it more in several weeks, but am in the middle of a move at the moment... I don't mind leaving this outstanding for a few weeks and returning to it later, if you don't. I currently just startx manually to get around the problem. I will also attach emerge --info this evening when I get back on that box. Again, sorry for my untimely "death". :)
hmm.. kde-3.4.3 is stable now. could you please try again and provide the emerge --info output and maybe add your xorg.conf to this bug as an attachment. thanks P.S.: I cannot reproduce this bug...
sorry, you are just too slow providing information ;-(
Have one "X server startup timeout" in /var/log/messages KDE-3.5.10. After logging in into console I can smoothly run KDE by /etc/init.d/xdm start Output of "rc-update -s" : evil ~ # rc-update -s alsasound | default bootmisc | boot checkfs | boot checkroot | boot clock | boot consolefont | boot consolekit | default cupsd | default gpm | default hald | default hostname | boot iptables | default keymaps | boot local | default nonetwork localmount | boot modules | boot net.eth0 | default net.lo | boot netmount | default ntp-client | default numlock | default rmnologin | boot sshd | default syslog-ng | default udev-postmount | default urandom | boot vixie-cron | default vmware | default xdm | default Output of "emerge --info": Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29-gentoo-r5-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9550_@_2.83GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:30:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.4-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -mmmx -msse4.1" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /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/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -mmmx -msse4.1" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_ALL="ru_RU.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="ru" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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/rostov /usr/local/portage/layman/vmware" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility ldap libnotify mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 sse3 sse4.1 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype type1 unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis xml xorg xulrunner xv 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" APACHE2_MPMS="prefork" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint i810 intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS P.S. Overlays are used only for 2 package installation: vmware-workstation and openoffice-infra-bin Please, reopen this bug.
P.S. Have this bug on x86_64 system.
(In reply to comment #9) > P.S. Have this bug on x86_64 system. > me, too, well until a few minutes ago i had. I fixed it by adding ServerTimeout=120 to the [X-*-Core] section in my kdmrc following: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524751
