GDM issues

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 05:43:05PM -0600, thephotoman wrote:
>Magnus Therning wrote:
>>On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:17:28PM -0600, thephotoman wrote:
>>
>>>It seems that I'm having a problem with GDM.  It keeps crashing the X
>>>servers in Warty.  I cannot use the GDM from Hoary, as it depends on
>>>Gnome 2.9, which is not a comfortable desktop (perhaps because it's an
>>>experimental release--anyway, I've previously documented my problems
>>>with it--and until somebody can tell me how to edit menus in Gnome 2.9,
>>>I'm not switching).  What do I need to do?
>>
>>
>>The first thing I'd do is to verify that it really is GDM causing your
>>problems. I can be a bit anal about setting up new Linux macines, but I
>>never install GNOME (or GDM) before I know I have an X setup that works.
>>To verify that X works I use startx and the default WM (TWM), any
>>problems I run into I fix and then I go ahead and install GNOME and GDM.
>>
>>What you can start with doing is to go to a console, log in as root,
>>then kill GDM (/etc/init.d/gdm stop). Take another console and start X
>>(startx). If you get a working X environment (likely with a _very_ bad
>>WM, that's TWM) you can be reasonably sure GDM is the culprit. Otherwise
>>you need to fix your X setup.
>>
>>/M
>>
>>
>
>Then the problem is definitely with GDM.  startx works as long as I'm 
>not using GDM as my window manager.  How do I fix the problem, then?

Argh. I remember having exactly the problem you describe--X keeps on
restarting a few times, then stops trying with a message that another
instance of X is running already. I can't remember what I did to fix it
though. I'm not even sure I did anything except making sure my system
was properly installed ('apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade') and a
reboot. (I "upgraded" my system from Sid to Hoary, so it could be that
my situation is somewhat different from yours.)

Sorry I can't be of more help.

/M

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