Bug 130066
Summary: | "x" respawning too fast when starting X in runlevel 5 | ||||||||||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Peter Ruprecht <ruprech> | ||||||||
Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint> | ||||||||
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> | ||||||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||||||
Version: | 3.0 | ||||||||||
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Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||
Hardware: | i686 | ||||||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||
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Last Closed: | 2005-03-29 17:26:39 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||
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Bug Blocks: | 143641 | ||||||||||
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Description
Peter Ruprecht
2004-08-16 20:22:16 UTC
First you'll need to uninstall the proprietary Nvidia driver, and restore the Red Hat supplied xorg-x11 packages, as Nvidia's driver overwrites several Red Hat supplied X server modules/libraries, resulting in an unsupported OS installation. Once you've removed the proprietary driver, and reproduced the problem with the 'nv' or 'vesa' drivers, please attach the X server log file and config file, as well as /var/log/messages from the problematic setup. Since the X server is running normally for you with startx, it is difficult to determine what the problem is without additional information. Please indicate any error messages you see on screen at the console, etc. that might be related. Thanks in advance. I am attaching /etc/X11/XF86Config, /var/log/XFree86.0.log, and the relevant part of /var/log/messages for a RHEL AS 3.0 system that I just installed from scratch and which has never had any third-party video drivers on it at all. Unfortunately it does show the problem I've described originally. In the case of the logs that I'm attaching, I booted directly into runlevel 5, gdm didn't start, I logged in from another system and ran ". /usr/bin/gdm", X started and the gdm login screen appeared, and then I logged in directly via the gdm login. Created attachment 108050 [details]
/etc/X11/XF86Config
Created attachment 108052 [details]
/var/log/XFree86.0.log
Created attachment 108053 [details] /var/log/messages (for boot into runlevel 5 as described in Comment #2) Some additional info: if in /etc/X11/prefdm I force the preferred desktop to be xdm rather than the default (which in my case is gdm) then X and the desktop login screen start normally when booting into runlevel 5. Could the problem be that you have to start gdm as ". /usr/bin/gdm" but the prefdm script tries to "exec" it? I figured out what the problem is. One of our configuration scripts in /etc/profile.d echoes output to stdout. When the echo output is not produced (eg when that part of the script is commented) gdm starts normally at boot time in runlevel 5. I am not sure why the echo output causes the problem, but it's easy to work around so this issue can be closed. Closing "WORKSFORME", as per comment #8. |