Dear Friends, Symptoms:
login via gdm as root, no issues whatsoever login vi gdm as yazdzik, gnome starts, then stops
no issue with fluxbox as yazdzik
what logs do I need to send so you can see what is wrong
this is a new install as of yesterday
I have deleted user and /home, so there is an issue somewhere with something that I cannot grasp
did I bork the install somehow? or is gnome currently broken somewhere(unlikely since it works as root...)
-m
* martin yazdzik yazdzik@nyct.net [20061226 17:15]:
login via gdm as root, no issues whatsoever login vi gdm as yazdzik, gnome starts, then stops
no issue with fluxbox as yazdzik
what logs do I need to send so you can see what is wrong
I'm neither a gdm nor a gnome user, but check out /var/log/gdm/ - if you can't find anything relevant there make sure the loglevel is appropriate (I guess /etc/gdm/gdm.conf will be relevant).
regards, -mika-
More info -
this is not a fglrx issue, as it occurs with any driver.
Notice the difference in the log marked root, where I directly logged in to gnome as root - the desktop environment simply works.
The one marked yazdzik does not.
Somewhere, the binary that starts the gnome desktop environment appears not to have permission to use the screen, since gdm is apparently started as root. This hypothesis is borne out by the fact that if I log in as root then switch user to yazdzik without logging out, everything is fine.
This must have something to do with the way the xorg file is set up, or some security thing.
Note as well: if I edit the xorg.conf file by hand and remove the monitor that grml-x installs, it is there again on the reboot, so I would like a way to try to write my own xorg.conf and not have it touched on the reboot. Is this possible?
Or a solution whereby I can log in to gnome without the workaround would be better... ;)
At any rate, this is definitely either a gdm or gnome-desktop-environment issue that has more to do with, I think, some grml install issues, since obviously, fglrx works in ubuntu and debian same basic setup.
Enclosed please find root and user gdm logs and my xorg.conf.
Thanks for not losing patience on this thorny issue, as the last grml install was perfect in every way. (hdd died over the holidays....)
best to all,
martin
On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 11:07 -0500, martin yazdzik wrote:
Dear Friends, Symptoms:
login via gdm as root, no issues whatsoever login vi gdm as yazdzik, gnome starts, then stops
no issue with fluxbox as yazdzik
what logs do I need to send so you can see what is wrong
this is a new install as of yesterday
I have deleted user and /home, so there is an issue somewhere with something that I cannot grasp
did I bork the install somehow? or is gnome currently broken somewhere(unlikely since it works as root...)
-m
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* my yazdzik@nyct.net [20061228 00:15]:
this is not a fglrx issue, as it occurs with any driver.
Ok.
Notice the difference in the log marked root, where I directly logged in to gnome as root - the desktop environment simply works.
[...]
Note as well: if I edit the xorg.conf file by hand and remove the monitor that grml-x installs, it is there again on the reboot, so I would like a way to try to write my own xorg.conf and not have it touched on the reboot. Is this possible?
Huh?! grml-x isn't executed neither on booting nor automatically at all. It must be something different therefore. Check out /etc/runlevel.conf if there's anything what might touch your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
[...]
The relevant lines are:
AUDIT: Wed Dec 27 17:17:13 2006: 2839 X: client 3 rejected from local host ProcXCloseDevice to close or not ? ProcXCloseDevice to close or not ? AUDIT: Wed Dec 27 17:17:44 2006: 2839 X: client 15 rejected from local host Synaptics DeviceOff called
And before those lines there're some errors regarding the AIGLX stuff:
| (EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727) | (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
So, does deactivating GLX/DRI help? Just disable the lines:
Load "dri" # direct rendering Load "glx" # 3D layer
in xorg.conf.
Oh, and does starting gnome via startx as user (*without* gdm) work? Just put 'exec gnome-session' to the end of your ~/.xinitrc and run startx with gdm disabled.
regards, -mika-
Dear Mika,
http://linuxfud.wordpress.com/2006/09/29/ubuntu-crashes-on-start-and-returns...
is the apparent problem....
aaargh - for the convenience of leaving stuff out on the desktop and one click network access, I have spent two days chasing a non-existing problem....
You patience is deeply appreciated.
All the best,
M
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 11:14 +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
- my yazdzik@nyct.net [20061228 00:15]:
this is not a fglrx issue, as it occurs with any driver.
Ok.
Notice the difference in the log marked root, where I directly logged in to gnome as root - the desktop environment simply works.
[...]
Note as well: if I edit the xorg.conf file by hand and remove the monitor that grml-x installs, it is there again on the reboot, so I would like a way to try to write my own xorg.conf and not have it touched on the reboot. Is this possible?
Huh?! grml-x isn't executed neither on booting nor automatically at all. It must be something different therefore. Check out /etc/runlevel.conf if there's anything what might touch your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
[...]
The relevant lines are:
AUDIT: Wed Dec 27 17:17:13 2006: 2839 X: client 3 rejected from local host ProcXCloseDevice to close or not ? ProcXCloseDevice to close or not ? AUDIT: Wed Dec 27 17:17:44 2006: 2839 X: client 15 rejected from local host Synaptics DeviceOff called
And before those lines there're some errors regarding the AIGLX stuff:
| (EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727) | (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
So, does deactivating GLX/DRI help? Just disable the lines:
Load "dri" # direct rendering Load "glx" # 3D layerin xorg.conf.
Oh, and does starting gnome via startx as user (*without* gdm) work? Just put 'exec gnome-session' to the end of your ~/.xinitrc and run startx with gdm disabled.
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