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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:10 AM

My gentoo box has a problem with GDM, but I don'know where to start to
look for the problem.

I automaticallty load gdm at boot, and this used to work a treat until
recently. I'm unsure what changed things. the XWindows logon no longer
appears, merely a console logon. gdm is running as a process, and I can
use startx once logged in through the console to get Xwindows. the gdm
log file looks perfectly normal with no errors.

I have tried re ermerging gdm, and it made no difference.

Anyone have any ideas?

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:10 AM

Have a look at your /etc/inittab

I have my default runlevel as 5 and at the bottom I have x:5

nce:gdm to
run gdm automatically.

--
Jafar Calley

#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:10 AM

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:03:14 +0100, Jafar wrote:

> Have a look at your /etc/inittab
>
> I have my default runlevel as 5 and at the bottom I have x:5

nce:gdm to
> run gdm automatically.
In Gentoo??

#4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:10 AM

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:11:13 +0000, Black Shuck wrote:

> My gentoo box has a problem with GDM, but I don'know where to start to
> look for the problem.
>
> I automaticallty load gdm at boot, and this used to work a treat until
> recently. I'm unsure what changed things. the XWindows logon no longer
> appears, merely a console logon. gdm is running as a process, and I can
> use startx once logged in through the console to get Xwindows. the gdm
> log file looks perfectly normal with no errors.
>
> I have tried re ermerging gdm, and it made no difference.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

I'm not sure if I understood what you meant. If you don't have the
graphical logon and only console then the GDM is not running AFAIK. Check

/etc/init.d/xdm status
and if it is : * status: stopped
rc-update add xdm default
then check your /etc/rc.conf if
# What display manager do you use ? [ xdm | gdm | kdm | entrance ]
DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm"

#5 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:11 AM

PiotrAF wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:11:13 +0000, Black Shuck wrote:
>
>
>>My gentoo box has a problem with GDM, but I don'know where to start to
>>look for the problem.
>>
>>I automaticallty load gdm at boot, and this used to work a treat until
>>recently. I'm unsure what changed things. the XWindows logon no longer
>>appears, merely a console logon. gdm is running as a process, and I can
>>use startx once logged in through the console to get Xwindows. the gdm
>>log file looks perfectly normal with no errors.
>>
>>I have tried re ermerging gdm, and it made no difference.
>>
>>Anyone have any ideas?
>
>
> I'm not sure if I understood what you meant. If you don't have the
> graphical logon and only console then the GDM is not running AFAIK. Check
>
> /etc/init.d/xdm status
> and if it is : * status: stopped
> rc-update add xdm default
> then check your /etc/rc.conf if
> # What display manager do you use ? [ xdm | gdm | kdm | entrance ]
> DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm"
>
>
>

xdm is running, and gdm is set in th rc.conf correctly.

When xdm starts, I get the nvidia logo (from the nvidia glx driver), and
briefly see the xserver, and then dumped back to the console

/ect/init.d/xdm restart does this each time

Startx works perfectly however...

#6 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:11 AM

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:46:34 +0000, Black Shuck wrote:

> xdm is running, and gdm is set in th rc.conf correctly.
>
> When xdm starts, I get the nvidia logo (from the nvidia glx driver), and
> briefly see the xserver, and then dumped back to the console
>
> /ect/init.d/xdm restart does this each time
>
> Startx works perfectly however...

Then you should have something in the logs. I have no idea what could
cause that.

#7 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:11 AM

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 15:17:10 +0100, PiotrAF wrote:

> On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:03:14 +0100, Jafar wrote:
>
>> Have a look at your /etc/inittab
>>
>> I have my default runlevel as 5 and at the bottom I have x:5

nce:gdm to
>> run gdm automatically.
> In Gentoo??

Yes. In Gentoo. If that's not supposed to work in Gentoo, I don't recall
what I did to get it to work

At the top of the file is..
# Default runlevel.
id:5:initdefault:

and at the bottom is..
x:5

nce:gdm

and a whole lot of stuff in between. Tell me if you would like me to post
the whole thing for reference

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#8 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:11 AM

Dnia Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:22:29 +0100, Jafar napisa³(a):

> Yes. In Gentoo. If that's not supposed to work in Gentoo, I don't recall
> what I did to get it to work

>
> At the top of the file is..
> # Default runlevel.
> id:5:initdefault:
>
> and at the bottom is..
> x:5

nce:gdm
>
> and a whole lot of stuff in between. Tell me if you would like me to post
> the whole thing for reference

At the moment, I'm logged in FreeBSD, so cannot double check, but that's
one of the first things that I learned when beginimng the Gentoo voyage
that /etc/inittab has nothing to do with the gentoo runlevels+X, unlike
most of the distros.
AFAIK you either add or del xdm from the default runlevel by means of
rc-update, but I may be wrong

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