Re: GDM, and how to use it]

[Andrew Clausen <clausen alphalink com au>]

Tim Lewis wrote:

> Hello All:
> Last night I tried using GDM.  I began by trying it from the command
> line. It started up a teal screen, totally blank, and stopped there.  I
> read through the gdm manual in /usr/doc/gdm and verified all was well
> against that document.  Everything seems OK.  According to the manual,
> it seems to stop at authentication (this was noted at the terminal,
> 'CTR_ALT_F1'), before putting up a login window.  I checked /usr/var/gdm
> (??) and looked at the auth file and it had a short string with my
> machine name and NO_MAGIC_COOKIE (or something like that.  BTW, I did
> try it the traditional way from inittab as well.  Any help would be
> appreciated.

Did you try looking in the log file (/var/log/messages)?

Andrew Clausen