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MasterNate

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Registered: 2012-03-14

Posts: 9

[Solved]Gnome Problems / GDM wont start

Had kde installed for a while, installed i3, then tried to split my monitors using just a VGA splitter cable (didn't change xorg.conf at that point), messed up KDE, uninstalled KDE, installed gnome, gnome isn't working, searched many a thread trying to find a solution, subsequently made my own post.

Alright after that horrible run on of a sentence here's some nice formatting:

I have gdm (along with dbus and hal) in the daemons array in my /etc/rc.conf
When gdm tries to start I get what I'm assuming is the default gnome background before I get an error message that says something along the lines of "Oh no! Something went wrong!" (Helpful right?!)
ctrl+alt+f1 startx (to start i3) and then google until my head explodes

Other possibly relevant info:
Tried SLiM (read somewhere that gdm was causing the problem), didn't help uninstalled
When I installed gnome I installed all the default packages (as in pacman -S gnome select /which packages/ default = all)
Tried pacman -Syu
X appears to be functional because i3 starts with no problem
I have a very old nVidia card, (GeForce 6150SE nForce 430, I believe)
Using nvidia drivers, tried nVidia-xconfig

Here's my /var/log/gdm/:0-greeter.log

Here's my /var/log/gdm/:0-slave.log

Here's my /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Here's my /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Any and all help is appreciated!

Solution:

Downgraded nVidia drivers to 295.33

Last edited by MasterNate (2012-05-06 21:24:59)

stevebob

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Registered: 2012-01-12

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved]Gnome Problems / GDM wont start

Can you try using startx to start gnome. Change the contents of .xinitrc to contain

exec gnome-session 

and comment out the

exec i3

.

This will rule out the possibility that the login/display manager is causing the problem.

MasterNate

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Registered: 2012-03-14

Posts: 9

Re: [Solved]Gnome Problems / GDM wont start

I've done that, still not working.

maxb

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Registered: 2012-05-04

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved]Gnome Problems / GDM wont start

Could be your nvidia driver, as described in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=139808.
The 295.40 series broke my GDM.
Replacing nvidia-295.40.xx with xf86-video-nouveau and nouveau-dri (necessary for Gnome 3) and deleting xorg.conf files written by nvidia-xconfig got the desktop back.

Last edited by maxb (2012-05-04 04:41:30)

paradoxxxzero

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Registered: 2010-10-18

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved]Gnome Problems / GDM wont start

Do you have any package that are newer than those on repo ?
I had and had the same problem, reinstalling those (polkit, libimobiledevice) fixed it for me.

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http://paradoxxxzero.github.com/

MasterNate

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Registered: 2012-03-14

Posts: 9

Re: [Solved]Gnome Problems / GDM wont start

Got it fixed by downgrading my nVidia drivers to 295.33, solved the problem immediately. Thanks for all the help! Will be marking as solved.