[SLUG] Annoying GDM dying problem

[David Gillies]

I'm not sure where to go with this one. The other day apt-get upgraded 
gdm to 2.4.4.5-1.2 on my Fedora Core 1 box. Previously it was working. I 
haven't made any changes to gdm since last year.

After a reboot, gdm won't load up anymore. X starts up, the hourglass 
rotates about a quarter of a turn and it dies. X then restarts, but with 
just the "X" mouse cursor and thats it. Really, really, really annoying.

I can't find anything in /var/log/XFree86.0.log that's out of the ordinary.
The best I get from /var/log/messages is:
gdm[4194]: Display :0 is busy. There is another X server running already.
Where else should I be looking to track down the problem. Has anyone 
else had this problem?

Also, if I boot into runlevel 3 and do a startx, it works.
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