problem: hoary, after update no gdm login ..

[Carlos Ribeiro]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:25:38 +0100, kloschi at subsignal dot org
<kloschi at subsignal.org> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> 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.

I had a similar problem two days ago, with a slightly different twist.
Seems that some package dependencies are not exactly fixed, and some
packages aren't simply available, or involve conflicting dependencies.
In my case (two days ago) there was a problem with the renaming of
libnautilus2-2 to libnautilus-extensions; seems like a few packages
still referenced the former, and via a long chain of dependencies,
gnome-desktop-environment wasn't available, and gdm, in particular,
was totally removed after dist-upgrade. I solved my problem
reinstalling onlye a few packages manually: gnome-core and a few
others. But it took me a good couple hours to figure out what was
going on. (I guess that's why they call hoary 'unstable', after all
:-)

-- 
Carlos Ribeiro
Consultoria em Projetos
blog: http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com
blog: http://pythonnotes.blogspot.com
mail: carribeiro at gmail.com
mail: carribeiro at yahoo.com