On 01/01/2008, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 10:48 +0000, Mick wrote: > > Happy New Year to all! > > > > I find my self in a bit of a pickle after a recent emerge. When I > > enter my username+passwd at the xdm login screen it sort of tries to > > load up fluxbox, but within a second or so it returns to the login > > screen. I can't see anything worth mentioning in the logs. I have > > downgraded baselayout, sysvinit and freetype but the problem remains. > > Any ideas? These are the packages emerged recently: > > [snip] > > > I don't have a problem login in at the console, so this must be > > xdm/Xorg related I guess. As this is the laptop that I take to work > > and my holidays end today all suggestions are welcomed! :) > > This happens to me when one of my services has errors, or fails to > start. Look for any [ !! ] or other messages on vt1. btw, this assumes > you can switch back to X ok (ctrl-alt-f7 usually)?
Thanks Iain, On my machines if a service fails to start it returns me to vt1, but I am still able to load xorg and login fine after I switch to vt7. I didn't notice something amiss with the vt1 boot messages. What else I could try? I guess downgrading all the packages of the last emerge could be a short term solution, albeit a bit blunt. -- Regards, Mick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
