From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417 Description of problem: I did a clean install and chose the graphical login. After booting, I get the text login prompt. Starting gdm from the command line gives the message 'gdm already running'. I am in runlevel 5. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. clean install with graphical login 2. login via text prompt 3. start gdm Additional info:
Anything in syslog? You're on virtual terminal 7?
I'm not in virtual terminal 7. In fact, pressing ctrl-alt-F7 doesn't do anything. I have to start kdm to get X running. Can't see anything in syslog, but I don't know whether I'm looking in the correct file :~ I do get a logwatch mail about modules that couldn't be located (ntfs, freentfs and several sound modules - probably due to my audigy) and about insmod mousedev that failed because it already exists. I don't think any of that is related though.
Was this still happening in 7.3? Or if you try Limbo, is it happening there? Any new details?
Hi, I got a similar bug for 7.3. gdm was starting, but reverting back to text mode. We had run Xconfigurator and checked inittab and everything. Turns out the ip address was from dhcp, but the guy had entered a hostname anyways. So when gdm when to start, it couldn't authorize or whatever (that was in /var/log/messages). The guy was able to start x manually, but it also complained about not being able to look up the hostname. I added his hostname to /etc/hosts, with the ip 127.0.0.1, and it worked. gdm now starts up at boot. Not sure if that was a bad idea, pls let me know if there's a better way to resolve this...
7.3 worked perfectly. I still get the insmod mousedev failed message, but the mouse works correctly, so I don't know what the problem is. I'll try limbo in a few days.
Comments sound like this is fixed, reopen if still in 8.0.