gdmflexiserver goes crazy
Recently, when I run gdmflexiserver in order to get a new login screen, the screen goes black and stays that way, with the monitor's little green light near the on-off switch blinking as if there's no signal. Control- alt-F7 gets me back to the existing screen (with the terminal on which I typed the command), but it takes a few seconds for it to fade in, as if it's just powering up again. Running a Debian testing system, updated every few weeks, occasionally oftener. I normally use icewm. Any idea what to do about this? Where to look for clues? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ie3hlh$us...@dough.gmane.org
Re: gdmflexiserver goes crazy
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:17:21 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: Recently, when I run gdmflexiserver in order to get a new login screen, the screen goes black and stays that way, with the monitor's little green light near the on-off switch blinking as if there's no signal. Control- alt-F7 gets me back to the existing screen (with the terminal on which I typed the command), but it takes a few seconds for it to fade in, as if it's just powering up again. Running a Debian testing system, updated every few weeks, occasionally oftener. I normally use icewm. Any idea what to do about this? Where to look for clues? -- hendrik Logging out to get to a login screen didn't work either. Now all ctl-alt- f* keys give me a screen with no sognal. Had to hard-reset to reboot. Now using a Debian stable instead of testing, just to get this message out. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ie3igc$1n...@dough.gmane.org
Re: gdmflexiserver goes crazy
Logging out to get to a login screen didn't work either. Now all ctl-alt- f* keys give me a screen with no sognal. Had to hard-reset to reboot. Now using a Debian stable instead of testing, just to get this message out. I had something similar to me happen when I tried out Testing two months ago. Switching from GNOME (on tty7) to tty2 and then back to tt7 again gave me the same blank screen with no signal problem. I found by switching around to different ttys that my usual F7 session had mysteriously moved to tty8. I went back to using Stable on this machine. -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I'll make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1292194928.11870.166.ca...@axon.8eews
Re: gdmflexiserver goes crazy
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:02:08 -0500, Petrus Validus wrote: Logging out to get to a login screen didn't work either. Now all ctl-alt- f* keys give me a screen with no sognal. Had to hard-reset to reboot. Now using a Debian stable instead of testing, just to get this message out. I had something similar to me happen when I tried out Testing two months ago. Switching from GNOME (on tty7) to tty2 and then back to tt7 again gave me the same blank screen with no signal problem. I found by switching around to different ttys that my usual F7 session had mysteriously moved to tty8. Yeah. My usual F7 session showed up on F8, too. It just seemed to allocate different F keys from before -- but I didn't consider this to be significant, since as far as I know, it doesn't really matter which F key goes with which session when multiple sessions are around. I went back to using Stable on this machine. Another thread on this list with the word 'gdm' in it suggests that the problem may be bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422735 where starting gdm is prevented by a script that uses the wrong file name to access the gdm program. Apparently fixed in gdm 2.20.10-2, which hadn't made it into testing last time I upgraded. So I guess it's time to upgrade and report back. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ie3t80$6g...@dough.gmane.org
