problem: hoary, after update no gdm login ..

[Ari Torhamo]

On ke, 2005-02-16 at 19:25 +0100, kloschi at subsignal dot org wrote:
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> After updating alot of stuff today, its no longer possible
> to login to X.
> All users get "session was shorter than 10 secs ..", with an
> .xsession-errors:
> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your Session with wtmp and utmp
> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Running: /usr/bin/x11/sessreg -a -w 
> /var/log/wtmp \
> - -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.XServers" -h "" -l ":0" "kloschi"
> /etc/gdm/XSession: beginning session setup ...
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/ira:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4669
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> and nothing more.
> I have no clue what causes this or how to debug, bedause no log says 
> anything.
> Any Ideas?
> I'd need that machine up and running asap : /
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> 
> thanx for helping.
> k.


Exactly the same symptomps here :-/ I just re-installed Hoary to get
back to business. Before re-installing I tried failsafe terminal, but
there seemed to be something wrong with it too. It was vertically cut in
two halves, which were very small and had changed places so that the
right half was in the left bottom corner and the left half was in the
right bottom corner. There was an empty space between the halves. Well,
without help I couldn't have done much in the terminal anyway. I did
apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, but maybe I should have done apt-get
downgrade :-)

Regards,

Ari