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spiritwalker

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From: USA

Registered: 2010-07-15

Posts: 85

[SOLVED] Gnome 3 won't start after kernel upgrade

I have upgraded to kernel 3.0, and now I am getting the following error when I try to start gdm:

** (gdm-binary:936): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.DisplayManager
** (gdm0binary:936): WARNING **: Could not acquire name: bailing out

Can anybody explain what the deal is?

Last edited by spiritwalker (2011-08-17 16:50:44)

theseus

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Registered: 2011-07-20

Posts: 19

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 won't start after kernel upgrade

Have you tried to change the init level and start gnome on its own (without gdm)?
You describe a problem with gnome in the title and gdm in the post, try first to see if gnome is starting.
Because unless there is a kernel module involved for your display (e.g. nvidia drivers), a kernel update shouldn't have an impact on Xorg.

spiritwalker

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From: USA

Registered: 2010-07-15

Posts: 85

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 won't start after kernel upgrade

theseus, thank you for the reply. I thought you can only start gnome using some kind of display manager. If I understood you correctly, I did 'telinit 5' and then 'startx' with the folowing results:

INIT: Switching to runlevel: 5
INIT: cannot execute "/usr/bin/xdm"    <---- This line repeats 10 times
INIT: ID "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
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But when I did 'who -r' I got this:

run-level 5 2011-08-16 02:26                last = 4

So I tried to start X wich resulted in the following:
http://i.imgur.com/yydcd.png
http://i.imgur.com/RNapr.png
http://i.imgur.com/NnFaM.png

Also, arch is installed in a virtual box, so I didn't install any video drivers like nvidia.

Thanks

Moderator edit:
spiritwalker, please do not post pictures of this large size: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_Code
In this specific case you could have made use the log files in /var/log and posted the relevant info in [ code ] tags.
Besides, this way you will get used to work with logs, which is mandatory in Arch, imo.

Last edited by bernarcher (2011-08-17 13:33:28)

fsckd

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Registered: 2009-06-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 won't start after kernel upgrade

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … lBox_Guest <- read this?

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spiritwalker

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From: USA

Registered: 2010-07-15

Posts: 85

Re: [SOLVED] Gnome 3 won't start after kernel upgrade

fsckd, thanks. Installing additions and enabling modules did the trick.

As for logs, I didn't know how to transfer logs from a virtual machine to my main machine. Thanks for the tip, I'll look into it.

Last edited by spiritwalker (2011-08-17 13:52:37)