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skoal

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From: Frequent Flyer Underworld

Registered: 2004-03-23

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GDM re-spawn from hell problems.

GDM was working fine until I (assume) installed x.org server and put xfree86 back on.  Now, everytime I try runlevel 5, I get the GDM re-spawn from hell demon (not daemon).

I checked the xfree86 logs and they do NOT show any problems.  The only place I can find a GDM log is in:

/opt/gnome/var/log/gdm/:0.log
/opt/gnome/var/log/gdm/:0.log.1
/opt/gnome/var/log/gdm/:0.log.2
/opt/gnome/var/log/gdm/:20.log
/opt/gnome/var/log/gdm/:0.log.3
/opt/gnome/var/log/gdm/:0.log.4

and, they don't say squat.

Any ideas?

kpiche

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From: Ottawa, ON, Canada

Registered: 2004-03-30

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Re: GDM re-spawn from hell problems.

Does it go to graphics for two seconds then back to text then back to graphics...

On my system, I had this problem after updating ttf-ms-fonts.  GDM likes fonts to be readable by everyone but doesn't say anything about it in the logs.  Unfortunately the MS fonts were installed as "r--------".  After chmod'ing them to 444 ("r--r--r--") all was well again.  So check the perms on your fonts.

Good luck!

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

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Re: GDM re-spawn from hell problems.

You might be able to disable the respawning if you change your inittab for runlevel 5 to use "once":
x:5:once:/opt/kde/bin/kdm

Then can you see if there's any error output on the screen?

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skoal

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From: Frequent Flyer Underworld

Registered: 2004-03-23

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Re: GDM re-spawn from hell problems.

Thanks for the tips.  I actually found some information in a log file that I completely overlooked:

from my `/var/log/errors' file,

Jun 16 11:57:49 localhost gdm[3216]: PAM unable to dlopen(/lib/security/pam_console.so)

Jun 16 11:57:49 localhost gdm[3216]: PAM [dlerror: /lib/security/pam_console.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory]

Jun 16 11:57:49 localhost gdm[3216]: PAM adding faulty module: /lib/security/pam_console.so

Jun 16 11:57:49 localhost gdm(pam_unix)[3216]: unrecognized option [service=system-auth]

* I don't have a "pam_console.so" file in that directory for some reason.  I don't know if that matters.  Like I said, the only thing I recently changed was going from X.org to XFree86, back and forth.  I never changed any font settings or anything else.

skoal

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From: Frequent Flyer Underworld

Registered: 2004-03-23

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Re: GDM re-spawn from hell problems.

...On my system, I had this problem after updating ttf-ms-fonts...

You're a genius my friend.  I had recently untarred some M$ fonts from a .tar file into `/usr/share/fonts'.  I don't use the AL package, but I made sure the fonts were readable by "g(roup)" as well as owner.

I didn't have any problems until recently for some reason.  Well, whatever the case, I made those fonts readable by "o(ther)" (anyone) as well with 'chmod 444" and it works fine now.  I forgot that I was playing around with fonts when I was trying out the two X servers.

kpiche

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From: Ottawa, ON, Canada

Registered: 2004-03-30

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Re: GDM re-spawn from hell problems.

Glad it worked.  What pissed me off was that GDM didn't say anything about fonts or file permissions.   :evil:

dpb

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From: Cyperspace?

Registered: 2004-04-11

Posts: 231

Re: GDM re-spawn from hell problems.

I get the GDM re-spawn from hell demon (not daemon).

Actually, demon can be written daemon too.