From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020706 Description of problem: Jul 8 10:26:21 knut gdm[8262]: Failed to start the display server several times in a short time period; disabling display :0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.recompile gdm for redhat 7.3 with rpmbuild --rebuild --target=i686 2.I use http://www.karubik.de/gig/2.0/gig20-pga.html to compile rpm from rawhide 3.install gdm, restart pc Actual Results: I should be able to logiin into Xfree but it is caught in a loop Expected Results: I shoiuld be able to login in to Xfree86 Additional info: Jul 8 10:25:42 knut kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann Jul 8 10:25:42 knut kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M Jul 8 10:25:42 knut kernel: agpgart: Detected Intel i815 chipset Jul 8 10:25:42 knut kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000 Jul 8 10:25:42 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: Intel i815 chipset Jul 8 10:25:42 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: aperture: 64M @ 0xf8000000 Jul 8 10:25:42 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: aperture mapped from 0xf8000000 to 0xd1bfd000 Jul 8 10:25:42 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: backend supports sba Jul 8 10:25:42 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: mode 4x Jul 8 10:25:42 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 16 pages Jul 8 10:25:48 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 16 pages Jul 8 10:25:48 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: backend released Jul 8 10:25:49 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: Intel i815 chipset Jul 8 10:25:49 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: aperture: 64M @ 0xf8000000 Jul 8 10:25:49 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: aperture mapped from 0xf8000000 to 0xd1bc5000 Jul 8 10:25:49 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: backend supports sba Jul 8 10:25:49 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: mode 4x Jul 8 10:25:49 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 16 pages Jul 8 10:25:53 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 16 pages Jul 8 10:25:53 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: backend released Jul 8 10:25:57 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: Intel i815 chipset Jul 8 10:25:57 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: aperture: 64M @ 0xf8000000 Jul 8 10:25:57 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: aperture mapped from 0xf8000000 to 0xd1bfd000 Jul 8 10:25:57 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: backend supports sba Jul 8 10:25:57 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: mode 4x Jul 8 10:25:57 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 16 pages Jul 8 10:26:00 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 16 pages Jul 8 10:26:00 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: backend released Jul 8 10:26:06 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: Intel i815 chipset Jul 8 10:26:06 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: aperture: 64M @ 0xf8000000 Jul 8 10:26:06 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: aperture mapped from 0xf8000000 to 0xd1c4b000 Jul 8 10:26:06 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: backend supports sba Jul 8 10:26:06 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: mode 4x Jul 8 10:26:06 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 16 pages Jul 8 10:26:09 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 16 pages Jul 8 10:26:09 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: backend released Jul 8 10:26:14 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: Intel i815 chipset Jul 8 10:26:14 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: aperture: 64M @ 0xf8000000 Jul 8 10:26:14 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: aperture mapped from 0xf8000000 to 0xd1c63000 Jul 8 10:26:14 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: backend supports sba Jul 8 10:26:14 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: mode 4x Jul 8 10:26:14 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 16 pages Jul 8 10:26:18 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 16 pages Jul 8 10:26:18 knut kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: backend released Jul 8 10:26:21 knut gdm[8262]: Failed to start the display server several times in a short time period; disabling display :0
Can you reproduce this with our gdm packages? If it's only with your own packages, then it's not something we can/will fix.
I reproduce this error with your package to from rawhide.
I think there is a problem with registration off certain config files from gdm on my system. Send along a log.
Created attachment 64285 [details] log off gdm installation
Does this happen if you configure X with Xconfigurator?
knutjbj: ping?
I had a bucthed gdm instalation, it work now since I have upgrade to Redhat linux 8.0 and latest nvidia driver.