GDM cant start Gnome

tom5760 · 2007-01-20 19:28:48

Hello all, I'm having a problem that just started recently with GDM. When my computer boots, X and GDM start up fine. Then I log in, and Gnome starts, but it crashes my whole machine.

The top and bottom bars for gnome show up, but thats all. Then I cant click on anything, I cant switch back to the terminal (alt+f1) or ssh in from another machine.

If I boot to a console, and use startx to start gnome-session, it starts fine.

I have an ATI X700 card, using the open source 'radeon' driver. I'm using the Beyond kernel. I installed from the 0.8 alpha3 CD. I have an AMD64 processor, but am running the x86 version of Arch.

I did not see any errors in /var/log/Xorg.0.log The warnings I saw were:

(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found

Also a bunch of:
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x23

I'm kinda stumped on this one, anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

tom5760 · 2007-01-20 20:16:29

Ok, after tinkering a bit, it seems to work again. I have no idea what happened.

Thanks anyway.

tom5760 · 2007-01-22 16:50:58

(Sorry to triple post)

So it happened again. I guess I didn't fix it. I did not change anything since the last time it worked. Anyone have any ideas?

radious · 2007-01-22 20:53:10

Hello! I have the same problem but i see that we have more in common - I guess that we both use AIGLX with radeon. This problem has been occuring for me for about two weeks (im not certain) and after some hours spent on trying solve it i'm 90% sure that AIGLX or DRI drivers is guilty. Unfortunately i dont have much knowledge to solve it or find something preciser:(

tom5760 · 2007-01-24 14:43:03

Yeah, I think this started happening after I enabled DRI and AIGLX recently. But its strange, because sometimes it works fine, other times it dies horribly.

But it seems to always work if I boot to console (no GDM) and use startx.

Strange...

xabbott · 2007-01-24 15:01:48

Post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf please.

radious · 2007-01-24 15:41:58

Ok, my xorg.conf

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" #"CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Touchpad" "AlwaysCore"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    Option "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "type1"
    Load  "synaptics"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
    Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
    Option "XkbLayout" "pl"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Touchpad"
        Driver      "synaptics"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option      "LeftEdge" "1700"
        Option      "RightEdge" "5300"
        Option      "TopEdge" "1700"
        Option      "BottomEdge" "4200"
        Option      "FingerLow" "25"
        Option      "FingerHigh" "30"
    Option      "MaxTabTime" "180"
        Option      "MaxTabMove" "220"
        Option      "VertScrollDelta" "100"
        Option      "MinSpeed" "0.06"
        Option      "MaxSpeed" "0.12"
        Option      "AccelFactor" "0.0010"
        Option      "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "ShadowFB"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DefaultRefresh"         # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ModeSetClearScreen"     # [<bool>]
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "radeon"
    VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName   "RS300M AGP [Radeon Mobility 9100IGP]"
    BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
    Option      "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
    Option      "DRI" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
      Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

And I have also enabled AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit option in my .bashrc (for netbeans).
Thanks for all help!

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#1 2007-01-20 19:28:48

GDM cant start Gnome

#2 2007-01-20 20:16:29

Re: GDM cant start Gnome

#3 2007-01-22 16:50:58

Re: GDM cant start Gnome

#4 2007-01-22 20:53:10

Re: GDM cant start Gnome

#5 2007-01-24 14:43:03

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#6 2007-01-24 15:01:48

Re: GDM cant start Gnome

#7 2007-01-24 15:41:58

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