On Fri, Jun 08 2012, Florian Philipp wrote: > 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?
Right. I tried xdm to rule out gdm. But your test is better and startx does not work. > Did you check the usual suspects (revdep-rebuild, re-emerging > x11-drivers)? I did revdep-rebuild after the emerge world, but did it again now and it passes. I just now remerged the drivers, no help. I do have the new polkit walt mentioned and there are bug reports on it, for example 42013. thanks, allan
