> -----Mensaje original----- > De: arch-general-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:arch-general- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En nombre de Guillermo Leira > Enviado el: sábado, 30 de octubre de 2010 16:03 > Para: 'General Discussion about Arch Linux' > Asunto: Re: [arch-general] GDM Locked - is Gnome locked > > > > On 06:51 Tue 19 Oct , Guillermo Leira wrote: > > > > > After the last Pacman -Syu, I can't login with gdm. As soon as I click on my > > > > > username, the system seems to freeze... Although not completely: I can ping > > > > > from other computer, but I can't ssh. > > > > > > > > > > Before I click on the username, the "switch off" icon at the right down corner > > > > > works. Once I click on the username, nothing else works, and I neither can > > > > > ctrl-alt-F1 to the console... > > > > > > > > > > Any suggestions/questions? > > > > > > > > I have removed GDM and installed SLIM. Now I can login, but the screen > > > shows nothing... And if I try to CTRL-ALT-F1 to the console, the system > > > locks again. It is not a GDM problem. > > > > > > > > If I run startx from the command line, X starts. > > > > > > > > Any advice? > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > > > Guillermo > > > > > > > > > > Hi Guillermo, > > > > > > try and make yourself a new user. If that one can work with the X-part of > > > your system - then some rights in your local $HOME directory are broken > > > (.xinitrc > > > would be a candidate for this kind of weird behaviour, but also > > > .ICEauthority or .Xauthority). > > > If of cause the new user account does have the same problems, your > /etx/X11 > > > or worse might have wrong user rights. > > > Have also a look i a file called .xerrors, .xsession-errors - or > something > > > like that (can't remember the correct name anymore), there could be some > > > hints in > > > it, if it does exist, what your problem is. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > Karl > > > > > > > > When you run Slim, you also get a /var/log/slim.log to look at. > > I have tried to make a new user, but it has the same problem. I have started X > as root, and works. Then I installed xfce, and it hangs as well. Twm runs fine > for all users. Gnome and xfce hang even for root. > > The .xsession-errors file is not updated. It is dated a couple of months > ago... > > I have created an .xinitrc for root, and it also gets locked when I select > gnome or xfce. > > As the system gets completely locked, I have to power cycle it, and the Xorg > log files have 0 bytes when I reboot... > > I checked KMS. I included intel_agp and i915 in mkinitcpio.conf, but it seems > to be unrelated to the problem, as twm works. > > Help... :-( > > I don't even know what to look for. And I wouldn't like to reinstall the > system (that would be too easy). > > Best Regards, > > Guillermo Leira > Just FYI. The issue is solved, but I don't like very much how... I enabled the testing repository, run pacman -Syu, and I everything was working fine again. I'm sorry, there where 33 packages, I don't know which one did the magic. I have updated another computer that had not been updated for a couple of weeks, and it died the same way. And the cure was the same: Enable the testing repository. I have another six computers running Arch, and some virtual machines, and I have had no problem with them. The two computers with problems are completely different: A laptop with Intel graphics, and a desktop with Nvidia. But they also have some things in common and different of the other computers: Both of them boot from an external USB drive (the internal hard drive has XP installed), and they are the only ones with x86_64. Best Regards, Guillermo Leira
