Arch Linux

izy521

Member

Registered: 2011-12-22

Posts: 1

gdm loops?

Hello, I'm sorry that my first post here is a question.

I installed Arch Linux 64-bit to my USB flash drive 2-3 months ago, everything worked fine. I lost my USB drive and bought a new one. This one I installed the current 32-bit version. Installed my display drivers, xorg, gdm, and updated glib to 2.30. My problem is this : When I run the "gdm" command after logging in (using the root account), the blue login screen comes up for about 5-10 seconds (I can see images of red X's) then a black screen comes up, for a moment I see the command line again then back to the blue login screen. It continues this cycle until I power down my PC.

Thank you in advance.

victorz

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2012-03-31

Posts: 5

Re: gdm loops?

The same thing happened to me just now when I installed Arch in a VirtualBox machine. I would also like to know why this happens.

Gcool

Member

Registered: 2011-08-16

Posts: 1,456

Re: gdm loops?

GDM is a display manager. The main idea is to use it in order to log in to your system and run/manage your X sessions.

Does the issue you're having also occur when you use GDM in the intended manner (invoking it through inittab or running as a daemon) as documented here?

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