problem: hoary, after update no gdm login ..

[Ari Torhamo]

On ke, 2005-02-16 at 21:26 +0200, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 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 : /
> > 
> > 
> > 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


I forgot to tell that before the login to X stopped to work, when I was
still in Gnome and had done a system upgrade, I was unable to launch
Gedit and the terminal anymore. This was the original reason why I
restarted my computer and found that login to X isn't working anymore.

Ari