Re: GDM won't start anymore

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:10:37AM -0500, Gauland, Michael wrote:
> > 2.2.0 is pretty old, you might want to try the newest version
> > 
> > George
> > 
> I did try upgrading, but that didn't fix the problem.  Since 2.2.0 was
> working before, I reinstalled that version, too, but no luck.  It seems
> like something outside of gdm has changed, but I don't know what--nothing
> I've done recently should have affected anything outside of my home
> directory.
> 
> If I look at the XFree86 log, it seems that when I try to start gdm X gets
> tied up setting up the mouse, but the log file up to that point is
> identical to the one generated when I start (successfully) with kdm or xdm.
> Curioser and curiouser...

Well, install the newest version and then set the debug flag to true in the
gdm.conf and then a lot of debugging spew will get dumped into your syslog.

George

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