Re: [TCLUG:15187] gdm corrupted by forte/glibc install?

[George Swan <g-swan@maroon.tc.umn.edu>]

Thanks.  I'm afraid I have a newbies bit of homework to do.  I've been
looking through the gdm config files and may have found some differences
between what's here at work (where I still have the work version) and
what's at home.  I couldn't make much sense of the log files when I looked
at them yesterday.  But Some of the things are starting to look familiar, 
especially that had an error involving "MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1..."
and another which had "xsti is turned off ".

I'm still unclear about what normally touches off this cascade of gdm
activity on a normal boot-- I assumed it was one of the "S" files in rc5.d
but couldn't find anything that made sense to me?

Anyway, thanks for the response.  I need to spend more time mapping out
what's there in front of my nose already.

gs

At 11:46 AM 3/27/00 -0600, you wrote:
>GDM is icky. It has...issues. Sounds like it is starting the Xserver but not
>the GDM part. Check you GDM config files, I've had XDM die and come back
>with hosed config files.
>
>Try running GDM from a console and see what (if any) errors it spits out.
>GDM probally keeps a log files as well. /var/log/*dm maybe.
>
>If all else fails, reinstall the rpm or install XDM or KDM in place of GDM,
>as they tend to be a bit more stable.
>
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