Am 08.06.2012 16:22, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: > Just today I cannot log into one of my machines (the other has not had > an emerge since early yesterday and is ok). > > With gdm, I don't get a welcome screen. Just the funny cursor going > round and round. > > With xdm, I do get the login screen, but both for me and for root, > after entering username/passwd the login box goes away for a few seconds > and then reappears. > > For both root and me .xsession-errors has just one line > /usr/lib64/X11/xdm/Xsession: line 71: exec: xsm: not found > > I do not have xsm merged on either the failed or working machine. > I will merge it now, but wonder why, if needed, update world didn't say > so. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > thanks, > allan >
From what you describe, it sounds more like X-Server crashing than XDM or GDM having a problem. Does `startx` work from the terminal? Did you check the usual suspects (revdep-rebuild, re-emerging x11-drivers)? Regards, Florian Philipp
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