The same thing happened to me and I looked and saw in /etc/X11 that there was
a prefdm.rpmorig file and a prefdm file. I replaced the prefdm with the
prefdm.rpmorig and everything was ok again.
later,
Luke
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> Really? it was working fine here before the last round of gnome updates,
> when i uploaded the new gdm. I'm working on the gdm2 beta (it's another
> coplete rewrite apparently)
>
> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Eugenio Diaz wrote:
>
> > I pointed this out like a month ago.
> >
> > I suspect that the problem is with XFree86 since I
> > tried the gdm package from both ReadHat6 and Rawhide,
> > and both did the same.
> >
> > --- Daryl Pawluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > i didn't enable gdm when i installed mandrake. i
> > > enabled it using
> > > linuxconf and setting network+graphics and run-level
> > > 3. gdm is
> > > installed. when i boot X starts but the screen
> > > remains blank except for
> > > the default X background. i don't know what the
> > > significance of this but
> > > this is what's in /var/gdm/:0.log (attached)
> > >
> > > AUDIT: Wed Oct 13 09:30:59 1999: 716 X: client 1
> > > rejected from local
> > > host
> > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> > >
> > > i have everything that's available from ftp.ciril.fr
> > > as of date / time
> > > in log file.
> > >
> > > any idea what's wrong?
> >
> >
> > =====
> > Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
> > Linux Engineer
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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