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toffe

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Registered: 2003-11-20

Posts: 18

gdm fails after massive upgrade

Hi all,

Did a massive upgrade yesterday. Fixed udev/devFS and alsa stuff, and rebooted.

System boots OK, but gdm fails. It just hangs, eating all of my CPU resources. I changed VTAllocation and 0=standard in /opt/gnome/etc/gdm/gdm.conf as suggested in another thread, but it is the same thing.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
toffe

s0lar

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Registered: 2005-05-19

Posts: 56

Re: gdm fails after massive upgrade

Try to downgrade. Use an older package and install it with pacman --add package.pkg.tar.gz

mpie

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Registered: 2005-03-06

Posts: 649

Re: gdm fails after massive upgrade

Hi all,

Did a massive upgrade yesterday. Fixed udev/devFS and alsa stuff, and rebooted.

System boots OK, but gdm fails. It just hangs, eating all of my CPU resources. I changed VTAllocation and 0=standard in /opt/gnome/etc/gdm/gdm.conf as suggested in another thread, but it is the same thing.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
toffe

is X working at-all or is it just gdm

toffe

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Registered: 2003-11-20

Posts: 18

Re: gdm fails after massive upgrade

is X working at-all or is it just gdm

X is working, if i start it manually

toffe

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Registered: 2003-11-20

Posts: 18

Re: gdm fails after massive upgrade

Try to downgrade. Use an older package and install it with pacman --add package.pkg.tar.gz

Umm, where do I find an older package?
It would be a cool feature if pacman had a --downgrade option...

mpie

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Registered: 2005-03-06

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Re: gdm fails after massive upgrade

sometimes you need to remove ~/.Xauthority and ~/.Ice****

as the new deamon may not have authority to connect to X

toffe

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Registered: 2003-11-20

Posts: 18

Re: gdm fails after massive upgrade

But why would gdm use so much cpu resources then?

toffe

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Registered: 2003-11-20

Posts: 18

Re: gdm fails after massive upgrade

sometimes you need to remove ~/.Xauthority and ~/.Ice****

as the new deamon may not have authority to connect to X

Made no difference...

toffe

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Registered: 2003-11-20

Posts: 18

Re: gdm fails after massive upgrade

Something is wrong here...
How do I fix this?

pacman --sync gdm
:: gdm-2.8.0.5-1: is up to date.  Upgrade anyway? [Y/n] 

Targets: gdm-2.8.0.5-1

Total Package Size:   3.3 MB

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] 

checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts... done.
opt/gnome/bin/gconftool-2: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
upgrading gdm... done.
opt/gnome/bin/gconftool-2: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Thanks,
toffe

mpie

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Registered: 2005-03-06

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Re: gdm fails after massive upgrade

seems like the gdm in your cache is the pre libtool slay one..

try a pcamn -Syu

toffe

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Registered: 2003-11-20

Posts: 18

Re: gdm fails after massive upgrade

Still the same problem...

Blaasvis

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Registered: 2003-01-17

Posts: 467

Re: gdm fails after massive upgrade

try pacman -S gconf. this will reinstall gconf.
after that reinstaller gdm again.

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toffe

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Registered: 2003-11-20

Posts: 18

Re: gdm fails after massive upgrade

I can install gconf without any error messages, but installation of gdm fails in the same way as before:

opt/gnome/bin/gconftool-2: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

mpie

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Registered: 2005-03-06

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Re: gdm fails after massive upgrade

okay major surgery time...

Pacman -R gnome gnome-extra..

pacman -Sy gnome gnome-extra

toffe

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Registered: 2003-11-20

Posts: 18

Re: gdm fails after massive upgrade

Yay! That did it!

Thank you for your help!

-toffe

mpie

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Re: gdm fails after massive upgrade

Cool glad your fixed HTH