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nspattak

Member

From: Greece

Registered: 2008-05-21

Posts: 26

Unable to start gnome session

Hi,

i used to have a working system but after my last reboot this has changed. It has been a lot of days since the last time I rebooted and quite some updates so I do not know which update might have caused it.

When gdm starts it flickers a few times and it crashes. I have a fully working console but I am not able to startx.

I use the latest kernel, xorg and xf86-video-ati packages and I have tried deleting me xorg.conf file. I do not see any error messages in Xorg.log . when i try startx from a tty I get a lot of lines like this one:

expected keysym, got XF86WWW: line 1773 of inet

and near the end of the file:

gnome-session: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libXi.so.6: undefined symbol: XESetWireToEventCookie

the last line reads:

error setting MTRR (base=0xd0, size <SNIP) Inappropriate ioctl for device (25)

I would more than welcome ideas as I do not want to reinstall my system.

pkmorrison

Member

Registered: 2005-02-23

Posts: 15

Re: Unable to start gnome session

Yep, I just started getting this too!
None of the remedies noted in similar posts worked.
I am on arch 64
and getting similar errors trying to start kde, xfce4, etc.

orion91

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-03-23

Posts: 14

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Re: Unable to start gnome session

Same problem for me too!

After kernel update on restarting GDM try to start but fails. I've last nvidia-173xx driver installed.
I've solved the problem forcing nvdia driver reinstallation. This is my Xserver log!