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Bug#302685: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 03:19:28 -0700 From: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bug#302685: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X Resent-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:33:01 UTC Resent-From: Debian BTS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-To: Leszek Koltunski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Leszek, You wrote in your report that I added gdm back in - it was complaining that /var/lib/gdm already exists, and it gave some other warning, and voilla, once again I could log onto X as 'leszek'. It's not clear to me whether log onto X here means running startx, or logging in using gdm. Can you please clarify? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer I meant 'log in using gdm' L. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#302685: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X
Hi Leszek, You wrote in your report that I added gdm back in - it was complaining that /var/lib/gdm already exists, and it gave some other warning, and voilla, once again I could log onto X as 'leszek'. It's not clear to me whether log onto X here means running startx, or logging in using gdm. Can you please clarify? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#302685: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X
Subject: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X Package: gdm Version: 2.6.0.6-1 Severity: grave I decided to 'dpkg -P gdm' yesterday and 'startx' wont start X any more when issued by normal user 'leszek'. ( root can start it ) X server starts, ( I added a 'echo Got here! ~/startx' to ~/.xinitrc and I get to see the log, also, there are no errors in /etc/X11/XFConfig-4.log ) but things go wrong later. I think this is not an issue of a crashing WM ( WindowMaker ) because I've tried copying all WindowMaker's -working- init settings of root to leszek's home dir, to no avail. I suspect this may have something to do with the fact that I had 'gdm' to auto-login 'leszek' before. 'apt-get install gdm' solved the issue for me. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages gdm depends on: ii adduser 3.63Add and remove users and groups ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.10.27 Package maintenance system for Deb ii gksu 1.2.4-1 graphical frontend to su ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libattr1 2.4.16-1Extended attribute shared library ii libaudiofile00.2.6-5 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libbonobo2-0 2.8.1-2 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.8.1-2 The Bonobo UI library ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.2-5 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc62.3.2.ds1-20GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcroco30.6.0-2 a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C ii libesd0 0.2.35-2Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared ii libgconf2-4 2.8.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgcrypt11 1.2.0-4 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.2-2 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.3-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring00.4.1-1 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-0 2.8.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-02.8.0-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.1-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.8.4-2 The GNOME virtual file-system libr ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-9GNU TLS library - runtime library ii libgpg-error01.0-1 library for common error values an ii libgsf-1 1.11.1-1Structured File Library - runtime ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.2-4 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg626b-9The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii liborbit21:2.12.1-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 0.76-22 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpango1.0-01.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii librsvg2-2 2.8.1-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libselinux1 1.22-1 SELinux shared libraries ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management ii libtasn1-2 0.2.10-3Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxml2 2.6.16-4GNOME XML library ii rxvt-ml [x-terminal-emul 1:2.6.4-6.2 multi-lingual VT102 terminal emula ii wmaker [x-window-manager 0.91.0-7NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X ii xbase-clients4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 miscellaneous X clients ii xlibs4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii xterm [x-terminal-emulat 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X terminal emulator ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime -- 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]
Bug#302685: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 01:01:38PM +0200, Leszek Koltunski wrote: Subject: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X Package: gdm Version: 2.6.0.6-1 Severity: grave I decided to 'dpkg -P gdm' yesterday and 'startx' wont start X any more when issued by normal user 'leszek'. ( root can start it ) X server starts, ( I added a 'echo Got here! ~/startx' to ~/.xinitrc and I get to see the log, also, there are no errors in /etc/X11/XFConfig-4.log ) but things go wrong later. I think this is not an issue of a crashing WM ( WindowMaker ) because I've tried copying all WindowMaker's -working- init settings of root to leszek's home dir, to no avail. I suspect this may have something to do with the fact that I had 'gdm' to auto-login 'leszek' before. 'apt-get install gdm' solved the issue for me. With gdm purged, are you able to run XFree86 as a normal user? What if you add a completely new user; does startx work for that user? Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#302685: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X
I once again purged gdm, tried to 'startx' as a normal user 'leszek' - no success. For a brief moment I get to see this gray screen with the hourglass, but after some ~1/2 a second X server exits. I added another normal user and 'startx' - no problems. I added gdm back in - it was complaining that /var/lib/gdm already exists, and it gave some other warning, and voilla, once again I could log onto X as 'leszek'. It really looks like all this has something to do with the fact that I had 'leszek' set to be the 'auto-login username' in gdm's settings. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#302685: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 05:08:22PM +0200, Leszek Koltunski wrote: I once again purged gdm, tried to 'startx' as a normal user 'leszek' - no success. For a brief moment I get to see this gray screen with the hourglass, but after some ~1/2 a second X server exits. I added another normal user and 'startx' - no problems. Can you also confirm that XFree86 always works, independent of whether gdm is installed or not, and independent of what user runs it? Thanks, Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#302685: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X
Can you also confirm that XFree86 always works, independent of whether gdm is installed or not, and independent of what user runs it? ok, I've got 3 users here: 'root' , 'leszek' and 'blah' ( which is just a dummy user created to test startx and XFree86 ) I purged gdm again, killed the X server, and tried 'startx-ing' with the three users. root and blah could do it, leszek - no. I then tried to issue 'XFree86'. root could do it, both blah and leszek failed with Fatal server error: Cannot move old log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old No wonder, since [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/log | grep XFree -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 40196 Apr 3 00:44 XFree86.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 40078 Apr 3 00:43 XFree86.0.log.old However, as I said above, 'blah' still can issue 'startx' with no apparent problems at all! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#302685: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 06:51:37PM +0200, Leszek Koltunski wrote: Can you also confirm that XFree86 always works, independent of whether gdm is installed or not, and independent of what user runs it? ok, I've got 3 users here: 'root' , 'leszek' and 'blah' ( which is just a dummy user created to test startx and XFree86 ) I purged gdm again, killed the X server, and tried 'startx-ing' with the three users. root and blah could do it, leszek - no. I then tried to issue 'XFree86'. root could do it, both blah and leszek failed with Fatal server error: Cannot move old log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old No wonder, since [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/log | grep XFree -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 40196 Apr 3 00:44 XFree86.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 40078 Apr 3 00:43 XFree86.0.log.old However, as I said above, 'blah' still can issue 'startx' with no apparent problems at all! Well, this is interesting, though probably not related to the original problem. X should be SUID root -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 7860 2005-02-23 04:07 /usr/bin/X11/X which is I guess how its supposed to be relocating the log files. Can you confirm that your permissions match: drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2005-04-02 11:42 /var/log Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#302685: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/log | grep XFree -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 40196 Apr 3 00:44 XFree86.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 40078 Apr 3 00:43 XFree86.0.log.old this is not a problem since X is setuid root (which means it start with root permissions whatever user start it). You should looks after file in the user for which it fails : ls -l .X* I would do: mkdir ~/backup mv ~/.Xautthority ~/backup then retry startx. Well those are just mind reading guesses. If you send me logs, output and errors it may be easier to help out with this problem. Though this is not a gdm bug. gdm does not mess with those files (be they /var/lo g/XFree.0.log or ~/.Xauthority ). It just check your passward and start X. Cheers Alban -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#302685: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X
to answer your questions, Justin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var | grep log drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Apr 3 13:49 log [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ whereis XFree86 XFree86: /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/ | grep X -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root7860 Dec 16 03:19 X -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1745740 Dec 16 03:19 XFree86 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27494 Dec 16 03:13 Xmark -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4396016 Feb 20 21:27 Xprt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/X11/ | grep X -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root7860 Dec 16 03:19 X -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1745740 Dec 16 03:19 XFree86 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27494 Dec 16 03:13 Xmark -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4396016 Feb 20 21:27 Xprt when I was testing if a normal user could start XFree86 I just typed 'XFree86' at the command prompt. It is not setuid root, so it gave me the errors. I just tried issuing 'X' as 'leszek' and 'blah' and both can do it. To answer your question, Alben, 1) removing .Xauthority didn't change anything 2) here are last lines of XFree86.0.log for both successful run ( with gdm installed ) and unsuccessful one: a) successful: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ cat /var/log/XFree86.0.log | tail -n 20 (**) LIRC-Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) LIRC-Mouse: Buttons: 5 (**) Option BaudRate 1200 (**) LIRC-Mouse: BaudRate: 1200 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device LIRC-Mouse (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Generic Mouse (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Configured Mouse (type: MOUSE) (II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded (II) Generic Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Warning: font renderer for .pcf already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .pcf.Z already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .pcf.gz already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .snf already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .snf.Z already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .snf.gz already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .bdf already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .bdf.Z already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .bdf.gz already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .pmf already registered at priority 0 Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! b) unsucessful: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ cat XFree86.0.log.old | tail -n 20 (**) Option BaudRate 1200 (**) LIRC-Mouse: BaudRate: 1200 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device LIRC-Mouse (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Generic Mouse (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Configured Mouse (type: MOUSE) (II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded (II) Generic Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Warning: font renderer for .pcf already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .pcf.Z already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .pcf.gz already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .snf already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .snf.Z already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .snf.gz already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .bdf already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .bdf.Z already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .bdf.gz already registered at priority 0 Warning: font renderer for .pmf already registered at priority 0 Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! (II) RADEON(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) RADEON(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xe0a37000 at 0xb5d93000 Let me know what other logs you need. L. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
