David Purton writes: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Yesterday I upgrade an intel box to the lastest release of > > woody. Suddenly gdm ceases to work. Launching > > /etc/init.d/gdm start > > > > nothing happens, except that the message > > > > Starting gdm appears > > > > Switching to the vt7, I see just a x cursor. Launching "ps aux" I see > > that gdm is inded running and the server X has also been start but its > > is marked as defunt ! > > > > This is a very serious matter, gdm login is a must because an > > ordinary cannot work on the console. Not me, but now I am in great > > trouble because I break this machine. I shouldn't mess with it, but > > then I like to have the latest version gnome and if I wait for woody > > to release it would be one year ! > > > > I finally throw away gdm and intall xdm. It works but only after about > > 1 minute of wait. At first, just like gdm; nothing happens, only an x > > cursor displayed (if you switch to vt7) > > > > I could of course sent a bug report, but I am not sur it is really a > > bug of gdm or of X, because cdm seem to be affected too. But startx > > work fine. But the point is that I need a fix _right now_ > > > > I also had this problem when I upgraded to X4. > I can't remember exactly what I did, but I think I changed > DisplayManager*authorize: from true to false in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config
Is it really false, that is not authorized ? > > If this doesn't work - poke around in the archives or look for other > authorization stuff in the xdm setup files. Thank. But the problem concern gdm and not xdm. And there is no mention about authorization is the files in /etc/gdm. I have indeed suspect that this is an authorization problem. But only an expert could figure out what should be done (and I am not a newbee) -- PHAM Dinh Tuan | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laboratoire de Modelisation et Calcul | Tel: +33 4 76 51 44 23 BP 53, 38041 Grenoble cedex 9 (France) | Fax: +33 4 76 63 12 63 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
