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> I have had the same problem with just a standard install. Your best bet is
> to look at /var/log/gui for details on what is happening at X start and why
> it's resetting.
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> Mine seems to happen when I remove the "vga=791" from the kernel line in
> GRUB's menu.lst file. The VGA parm makes my CLI difficult to read (tiny
> characters) but X seems to work. When I remove it or replace it with the
> "vga=274" which was placed at install on another eW3.1 box, X doesn't
> start.
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> ???
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Hi Matt,
Now that does't make any sense at all... but, I'll try it when I get home. I
did, in fact, change my menu.lst file to get rid of the graphical boot screen,
so I guess it COULD be the problem. It'll be easy enough to experiment with,
anyway.
Thanks,
Tim
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> Hi folks,
> Considering all the trouble I've been having getting my eD2.4 install
> up to snuff, I decided to try migrating to eW3.1, which I have
> installed on a test partition. I downloaded and installed kernel 2.4.9
> and X4.1.0 without too much difficulty. I then tried to start
> installing KDE2.2 from the SRPMs I was using under eD2.4, but ended up
> with some compile issues. Rather than debug that, I decided to
> download the pre-compiled RPMs. After installing all packages, I tried
> to telinit 5 to start KDE2.2, but it doesn't want to work.
> kdm starts, but before a login screen displays, X restarts. This
> happens repeatedly (X starts - doesn't get to kdm login - x restarts)
> until kdm apparently gives up and I get an error message, 'Id "gu"
> respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes'. If I don't telinit 3,
> then the cycle gets repeated in 5 minutes.
> 'startx' works. I get an xsession and can run non-kde programs
> (composing this in Netscape), but when trying to run KDE apps from
> plain X, they fail with an error "error while loading shared
> libraries: /opt/kde2/lib/libkdeui.so.3: undefined symbol:
> stylChange_8QToolBarR6QStyle", but I'm not at all sure whether that's
> relevent to my problem.
> /var/log/messages has:
> kdm[1781]:Greeter returned non-zero exit code 32512
> modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-81
> kdm[1802]:Greeter returned non-xero exit code 32512
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> So this looks like an error with kdm, or kdmrc.
> Any clues?
> Thanks,
> Tim
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