I am experiencing the same behaviour, the GDM init script : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# /etc/init.d/gdm start Starting GNOME Display Manager: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#
Starts fine calling the /usr/sbin/gdm directly, so the problem is in the initscript. Let me know if you need more information. Robin Package: gdm Version: 2.20.3-2 -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gdm depends on: ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.19 Debian configuration management sy ii gksu 2.0.0-5 graphical frontend to su ii gnome-session 2.20.3-2 The GNOME 2 Session Manager ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal 2.18.4-1 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libattr1 1:2.4.41-1 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.7-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.5.4-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.4-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdmx1 1:1.0.2-2 X11 Distributed Multihead extensio ii libfontconfig1 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration library ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.8-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpam-modules 0.99.7.1-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 0.99.7.1-5 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpango1.0-0 1.19.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii librsvg2-2 2.22.0-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii librsvg2-common 2.22.0-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libselinux1 2.0.35-1 SELinux shared libraries ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-14 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii libx11-6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 authorisation library ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.31.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii metacity [x-window-manager 1:2.20.2-1 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma ii twm [x-window-manager] 1:1.0.3-3 Tab window manager ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator 232-1 X terminal emulator Versions of packages gdm recommends: ii dialog 1.1-20071028-3 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii gdm-themes 0.5.1 Themes for the GNOME Display Manag ii whiptail 0.52.2-11.1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1 nested X server ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+10 the X.Org X server ii zenity 2.20.1-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro -- debconf information: gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm * shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
