On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 04:56:01PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Lance Tagliapietra wrote: > > My xdm.log file had the following after a boot: > > Wed Aug 17 00:16:42 2005 xdm error (pid 2084): hung in XOpenDisplay(:0), > > aborting > > Wed Aug 17 00:16:42 2005 xdm error (pid 2084): server open failed for :0, > > giving up > > Wed Aug 17 00:16:42 2005 xdm error (pid 1455): display :0 cannot be opened > > Wed Aug 17 00:16:42 2005 xdm error (pid 1455): display :0 is being disabled > > So xdm failed to start the X server for display 0. > > > If I run X by iteself, as root: X -ac, for example, I will get an X > > display and X cursor, but no log in window. > > But the X server works! > > So it looks like (a) xdm runs a different command to start the X server or (b) > it runs the correct one, but passing weird parameters. > > Can you check (using e.g. strace) which X server xdm tries to run? And look in > /etc/xdm/xdm.conf.
It looks like XDM is starting the right X server, with the following command (see http://www.luminet.net/~lancetag/debian/sarge/xdminit.trace.495): execve("/usr/X11R6/bin/X", ["/usr/X11R6/bin/X", "vt7", "-depth", "8", "-dpi", "100", "-auth", "/var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A"...], [/* 13 vars */]) = 0 Looking at that file, it looks like a process is waiting for a signal that it never gets: setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 20000}, it_value={0, 20000}}, NULL) = 0 --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn( <unfinished ...> --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- <... sigreturn resumed> ) = ? (mask now [INT QUIT ILL]) --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- sigreturn( <unfinished ...> --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- <... sigreturn resumed> ) = ? (mask now [INT QUIT ILL]) I have re-run with the --debug option set to 255, I'll be posting the trace files from that boot shortly. I'm hoping to find additional info in the log file as to why the :0 could not be opened. I still have a suspicion that there is a second, but related problem here, as I connot log on via my X terminal as a normal user, but I can log on as root user via the login window that xdm generates on that machine. Does anyone else log in to their m68k box with a remote X terminal? Thanks, --Lance > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
