Re: only failsafe gnome login works

Jacob,

Thanks for the tips.  I captured some of the error messsages from startx
and they are below (The invalid cast message repeats for thousands of
times and then X dies.  I don't get these messages if I choose "failsafe
gnome" from the GDM greeter.


My gnomerc script (/etc/gdm/) is:

[damon@nixbox gdm]$ cat gnomerc 
exec /usr/bin/gnome-session


gnome-session is:

[damon@nixbox gdm]$ gnome-session --version
Gnome gnome-session 1.5.20


Is there something else you can think of that I can look at?

Thanks!

Damon.



================ startx log ===========================================
XFree86 Version 4.2.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.2.0-8) / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 23 January 2002
	If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
	newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
	reporting problems.  (See http://www.XFree86.Org/)
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.17-0.13smp i686 [ELF] 
Build Host: daffy.perf.redhat.com
 
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu May 30 09:38:22 2002
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
Preloading /usr/local/lib/libgdkxft.so.0

(gnome-login-check:20026): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from
(NULL) pointer to `GdkWindow'

(gnome_segv:20027): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL)
pointer to `GdkWindow'

(gnome_segv:20028): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL)
pointer to `GdkWindow'

(gnome_segv:20029): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL)
pointer to `GdkWindow'

(gnome_segv:20030): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL)
pointer to `GdkWindow'

(gnome_segv:20031): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL)
pointer to `GdkWindow'

(gnome_segv:20032): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL)
pointer to `GdkWindow'

(gnome_segv:20033): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL)
pointer to `GdkWindow'

(gnome_segv:20034): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL)
pointer to `GdkWindow'






On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 13:35, jacob berkman wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 17:04, Damon Brodie wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Today I took the plunge and updated my RH7.3 from ximian 1.4 to the
> > latest and greatest gnome2 snaps using Red Carpet.
> > 
> > If I login with session=Gnome or session=Default then it starts to log
> > me in and then stops cold.  After a minute or so I get dumped back into
> > GDM.
> > 
> > I can login in with session=Gnome failsafe and it seems to work.
> 
> what works?  you can run 'gnome-session' here and it logs you in ok?
> 
> > Any ideas what might be wrong if I choose a regular login?  Is there a
> > log file that I can check?
> 
> look for this in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf:
> 
> [debug]
> # This will enable debugging into the syslog, usually not neccessary
> # and it creates a LOT of spew of random stuff to the syslog
> Enable=true
> 
> then it will send output somewhere in /var/log.  also, ~/.gnome-errors
> or ~/.xsession-errors might have some hints as to what's going on.
> 
> jacob
> -- 
> "don't get me wrong, i think that radiohead are amazing. i love their
>  music and i love their ethos, but that thom yorke guy always seems to
>  be complaining." -- moby


_______________________________________________
gnome-2-snapshots maillist  -  [email protected]
http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gnome-2-snapshots