On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 09:24 +0200, Christoph Bier wrote: > Hi all, > > since yesterday I can't log into GNOME anymore. The failsafe session > works however. I get a message that the last session did last less > than 10 seconds and that there may be not enough space left on my > hard disk. There is enough space and I can't find anything special > in .xsession-errors: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > .xsession-errors: > /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp > /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w > /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" > -l ":0" "chris" > /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 942M 392M 503M 44% / > tmpfs 251M 4.0K 251M 1% /dev/shm > /dev/hda6 4.6G 3.8G 626M 86% /var > /dev/hda7 942M 17M 878M 2% /tmp > /dev/hda8 2.8G 1.5G 1.2G 55% /usr > /dev/hda9 3.3G 2.8G 319M 90% /usr/local > /dev/hda10 25G 17G 6.8G 71% /home > /dev/hdb5 28G 17G 9.6G 64% /multimedia > tmpfs 10M 616K 9.4M 7% /dev > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > `aptitude install -f' tells me that nothing has to be done. > > Two days ago gdm was upgraded, so I installed the older version > (gdm_2.6.0.8-1_i386.deb) again. But it didn't help and I upgraded > again. I use Sarge with a few backports (teTeX, vorbis-tools, > libxrender1). > > Can anybody help me? I already asked on the german mailing list > yesterday but without any results. I also found a message in the > archives describing the same problem[1] but without a solution. > > Best regards, > Christoph > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/10/msg01801.html > -- > +++ Typografie-Regeln: http://www.zvisionwelt.de/typokurz.pdf (1.4) > > Hi. The following line in my desktop machine's (Sarge).xsession file caused the same message: "xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults"
In recovery mode I moved .xsession to xsession, and logon was normal. I don't think I'd upgraded gdm when this occured. Also after upgrading gdm on another machine (Sarge), XFree86 was taking 99% of the cpu according to top. I killed it with kill -9 pid, but it restarted and reached the same duty cycle. On reboot XFee86 returned to normal. HTH C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]