On 18/04/12 13:09, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 18/04/12 12:57 did gyre and > gimble: >> 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 18/04/12 12:32 did gyre and >> gimble: >>> On 17/04/12 21:22, Colin Guthrie wrote: >>>> As you do not have any legacy initscripts messing things up, I >>>> think the problem you now face is more simple. We need to find >>>> out exactly what's wrong. >>>> >>>> >>>> I guess the next stage is to: 1. Boot. 2. Assuming X does not >>>> start, switch to tty2 3. Get the output of: systemctl show >>>> prefdm.service 4. Assuming it's actually tried to start it >>>> (look for dates in the ActiveEnterTimestamp variable near the >>>> top), >>> >>> ActiveEnterTimestamp=Tues, 17 Apr 2012 14:47:50 +0100 (yes, it >>> was on all night :-) ) >>> >>> then look in >>>> /var/log/Xorg.0.log. >>>> >>> >>>> If you happen to have a radeon, and it's using the vesa driver >>>> it could be the same problem Oliver is seeing: >>>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5426 >>>> >>> It's Intel. It seems to be a bit unhappy that the Wacom tablet >>> isn't attached, but ISTR that the same thing happened when it was >>> attached so I doubt if that is relevant. The logfile is >>> attached. >> >> Yeah it seems to be related to the tablet... can you try just >> moving the xorg.conf out the way (mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.ignore) and reboot and see if it's happier? > > Actually I don't think it's that in retrospect... There seems to be > two seconds where X just sits and waits. Then it closes down > normally. > > [ 70.650] (**) Option "xkb_options" "compose:rwin" [ 72.501] > (II) evdev: Power Button: Close > > So the next step is to see where the rest of the errors come from. > > 1. What display manager are you using? I'm guessing KDM. If so what > does /var/log/kdm.log say? > > I suspect it has those dbus related errors... but it would be nice > to confirm. > > I'm pretty sure it's KDM that failing and subsequently bringing X > down with it. I'll see if I can reproduce with KDM here. > kdm.log was >5000 lines and full of identical lines, so I mv'd it. The attached is a clean kdm.log. Those 29 lines have the answer :-)
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