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moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

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GDM won't shutdown or reboot nor display the face browser

I basically said it all in the title

I'm sorry for repeating this topic, I posted it a while ago but got really busy in the meantime and I just haven't had the time to deal with it. Basically when I click the "restart" or "shutdown" button GDM just drops me to a console login.

The other issue is that it won't display the face browser. I've set it to "themed with facebrowser" and I know the theme has one, but it just displays an empy border where the "faces" should be. This really isn't that important as much as the shutdown/reboot issue.

I've tried inspecting the GDM log files and couldn't find anything that could point me in the right direction. Here, I'll just post it here:

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X.Org X Server 1.4.0.90
Release Date: 5 September 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-ARCH i686 
Current Operating System: Linux lappy 2.6.24-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 30 11:40:06 CEST 2008 i686
Build Date: 23 March 2008  11:53:09AM
 
    Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
    to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
    (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
    (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Apr  7 18:43:54 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(WW) intel: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) found
(II) Module "ddc" already built-in
(II) Module "i2c" already built-in
(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
expected keysym, got XF86KbdLightOnOff: line 70 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessDown: line 71 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessUp: line 72 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdLightOnOff: line 70 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessDown: line 71 of pc
expected keysym, got XF86KbdBrightnessUp: line 72 of pc

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moljac024

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Registered: 2008-01-29

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Re: GDM won't shutdown or reboot nor display the face browser

Please respond! anyone ??

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drag0nl0rd

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Re: GDM won't shutdown or reboot nor display the face browser

With GDM I experienced something similar. In let's say about 50% GDM doesn't shutdown/reboot but start over. In that case I just use the console, doesn't mean that much to me.

hussam

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Re: GDM won't shutdown or reboot nor display the face browser

Is is possible that gdm is crashing?
How do you start gdm? the proper way is though runlevel 5 through /etc/inittab.

moljac024

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Registered: 2008-01-29

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Re: GDM won't shutdown or reboot nor display the face browser

I am starting it through runlevel 5 in /etc/inittab.

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drag0nl0rd

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Re: GDM won't shutdown or reboot nor display the face browser

Yes, me to

/etc/inittab
# Example lines for starting a login manager
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon

Edit:
and this is what appears on 1 terminal:

gdm-binary[1234]: Warning: gdm_cleanup_children: child 15539 crashed of signal 11
gdm-binary[1234]: Warning: gdm_cleanup_children: slave crashed, killing its children

Last edited by drag0nl0rd (2008-04-18 22:05:22)