On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > Hello > > On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 03:29:25PM +0000, Mick wrote: > > I stopped/zapped xdm, ran startx and from an xterm I was able to run > > fluxbox which started OK. So, I am not sure if you are right that the > > start up script crashes (I wonder, shouldn't I see something in the logs > > about it?) If it crashed wouldn't it also crash when called from within > > an xterm? When I ran etc-update I had to update a number of scripts > > (some of them were trivial - automerged) and some of them were related to > > halt.sh, and so on, but I cannot recall any xdm related scripts. Is > > there an etc-update history somewhere on my machine? > > I didn't mean the xdm script (which, obviously, works fine), but the > script started when you log in. The one in sessions is probably the one.
Yes, I actually saw for a moment the message that comes up on xdm saying that the login was successful, but a few seconds later I am dumped back into the login screen. > Actually, how it works: xdm starts X and shows the login screen. When > you log in, it starts something on the X server. When the something > stops (for any reason), xdm restarts X and shows the login screen again. > > So I think the thing started by xdm terminates too early for some > reason, crash was the first idea I got. All this is just a guess, how it > looks to me, I do not say it is the only possible cause (crashing X > could be the cause too, and xdm would just restart it). Progress so far: revdep-rebuild did not pick up anything. Then I noticed that kgpg was complaining about the gpg agent not having started up. Looking closer I noticed some error messages on the terminal that I started fluxbox from, about libcrypto.so.0.9.8. So I reran revdep-rebuild -X -v --library libcrypto.so.0.9.8 and it is now emerging the best part of 38 packages. Let's see if this fixes it. I wonder why I am the only one complaining about this problem. Are your PCs running OK? I have not tried updating any other machines of mine until I can get Xorg on this laptop up & running again. -- Regards, Mick
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