Gdm is evil!
I have spent the past 5 hours bashing my brains out getting gdm to work on my system and it never will! I try to start it and it just displays a blank screen without the window popping up. I tried to do as the README.Debian said and to change the symlinksso that gdm and xdm are isolated in different runlevels. What I did was just to delete S99xdm (the symlink to /etc/init.d/xdm) so that it won't lock the system anymore however it still will not display anything I have installed all of the dependencies however it still hates me! The binary for the login interface program works but does nothing on it's own. I assume this is a problem with pam/config files. I looked at /etc/gdm/Init and say :0 and Default which together has only a single program called xsetroot and some rather cryptic arguments. This appears to be broken or what? Could someone please help me? Separate hype from hope on Wall Street. Visit http://www.streetforce.com
Re: Gdm is evil!
Yes, gdm is evil :) It is not finished software, don't let the 1.0 version number fool you. My advice is not to use it. period. The next release (gdm2 I think) should be much better. -Brad On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, John Haggerty wrote: I have spent the past 5 hours bashing my brains out getting gdm to work on my system and it never will! I try to start it and it just displays a blank screen without the window popping up. I tried to do as the README.Debian said and to change the symlinksso that gdm and xdm are isolated in different runlevels. What I did was just to delete S99xdm (the symlink to /etc/init.d/xdm) so that it won't lock the system anymore however it still will not display anything I have installed all of the dependencies however it still hates me! The binary for the login interface program works but does nothing on it's own. I assume this is a problem with pam/config files. I looked at /etc/gdm/Init and say :0 and Default which together has only a single program called xsetroot and some rather cryptic arguments. This appears to be broken or what? Could someone please help me? Separate hype from hope on Wall Street. Visit http://www.streetforce.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Gdm is evil!
Hi, Check /var/state/gdm/:0.log. If it says something like: AUDIT: Wed Aug 11 20:55:24 1999: 174 X: client 1 rejected from local host Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Then check bug #42636 : http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/42/42636.html It's probably the reason as this causes the exact same behavior for me that your getting. Chris Schleifer John Haggerty wrote: I have spent the past 5 hours bashing my brains out getting gdm to work on my system and it never will! I try to start it and it just displays a blank screen without the window popping up. I tried to do as the README.Debian said and to change the symlinksso that gdm and xdm are isolated in different runlevels. What I did was just to delete S99xdm (the symlink to /etc/init.d/xdm) so that it won't lock the system anymore however it still will not display anything I have installed all of the dependencies however it still hates me! The binary for the login interface program works but does nothing on it's own. I assume this is a problem with pam/config files. I looked at /etc/gdm/Init and say :0 and Default which together has only a single program called xsetroot and some rather cryptic arguments. This appears to be broken or what? Could someone please help me? Separate hype from hope on Wall Street. Visit http://www.streetforce.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
