On 05/13/2013 04:06 AM, [email protected] wrote: > When I start gdm, I get a message on the screen which says oh no, > something has gone wrong.
If I had a bitcoin for every time I've seen that message I could buy all of us a beer. Maybe two :) > The log file is at > http://pastebin.com/qwNE7ee6 -- I would appreciate any help. There are no obvious problems in your Xorg log, so the real error is not logged there. I don't use gdm so I'm not sure where those errors are logged. Anyone? The main reason I don't like using one of the *dm display managers is exactly to avoid this sort of PITA where you can't even see the real error messages. That's why I use startx instead. Anyway, the trick *I* would try is to add the gentoo=nox kernel option to the grub boot prompt (assuming you use grub) to prevent gentoo from even trying to start an X session, thus avoiding gdm and allowing you to use startx so you can read the gnome error messages on the console while X starts up. If you can ssh into that machine you could also try removing xdm from your /etc/runlevels/default directory, assuming it's there. I'm not at all sure how the *dms are usually started during boot, so someone else could give you a better answer.
