[gentoo-user] Re: gnome not working
On 05/13/2013 04:06 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: When I start gdm, I get a message on the screen which says oh no, something has gone wrong. If I had a bitcoin for every time I've seen that message I could buy all of us a beer. Maybe two :) The log file is at http://pastebin.com/qwNE7ee6 -- I would appreciate any help. There are no obvious problems in your Xorg log, so the real error is not logged there. I don't use gdm so I'm not sure where those errors are logged. Anyone? The main reason I don't like using one of the *dm display managers is exactly to avoid this sort of PITA where you can't even see the real error messages. That's why I use startx instead. Anyway, the trick *I* would try is to add the gentoo=nox kernel option to the grub boot prompt (assuming you use grub) to prevent gentoo from even trying to start an X session, thus avoiding gdm and allowing you to use startx so you can read the gnome error messages on the console while X starts up. If you can ssh into that machine you could also try removing xdm from your /etc/runlevels/default directory, assuming it's there. I'm not at all sure how the *dms are usually started during boot, so someone else could give you a better answer.
[gentoo-user] Re: gnome not working
walt: Anyway, the trick *I* would try is to add the gentoo=nox kernel option to the grub boot prompt (assuming you use grub) to prevent gentoo from even trying to start an X session, thus avoiding gdm and allowing you to use startx so you can read the gnome error messages on the console while X starts up. I am also using startx and have no experience with *dm. For a test, how about renaming gdm to gdm-old and creating a script with the name gdm instead? - gdm - #!bin/bash gdm-old 21 | tee ~/gdm.log --- Hartmut
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome not working
walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/13/2013 04:06 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: When I start gdm, I get a message on the screen which says oh no, something has gone wrong. If I had a bitcoin for every time I've seen that message I could buy all of us a beer. Maybe two :) The log file is at http://pastebin.com/qwNE7ee6 -- I would appreciate any help. There are no obvious problems in your Xorg log, so the real error is not logged there. I don't use gdm so I'm not sure where those errors are logged. Anyone? The main reason I don't like using one of the *dm display managers is exactly to avoid this sort of PITA where you can't even see the real error messages. That's why I use startx instead. Anyway, the trick *I* would try is to add the gentoo=nox kernel option to the grub boot prompt (assuming you use grub) to prevent gentoo from even trying to start an X session, thus avoiding gdm and allowing you to use startx so you can read the gnome error messages on the console while X starts up. If you can ssh into that machine you could also try removing xdm from your /etc/runlevels/default directory, assuming it's there. I'm not at all sure how the *dms are usually started during boot, so someone else could give you a better answer. Well, I don't boot right into gdm or any display manager, I started gdm by hand. I did try startx, but got the same result, but I can get the .xsessionerrors, so maybe someone can figure that out. Its at http://pastebin.com/JJrdxWHB . -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome not working
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:40 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: [ snip ] Well, I don't boot right into gdm or any display manager, I started gdm by hand. And by that you mean /etc/init.d/gdm start? I did try startx, but got the same result, but I can get the .xsessionerrors, so maybe someone can figure that out. Its at http://pastebin.com/JJrdxWHB . Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
