f10, gui login spawns multiple X sessions, fails

[Jonathan Dieter]

On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 17:26 -0800, Carl Byington wrote:
> After a yum update, booting to level 3 (inittab=3),
> system-config-display things look ok. It knows about the nvidia card,
> resolutions are reasonable for the lcd. From that point, startx as root
> works nicely. Logoff and 'telinit 5' and user logins work.
> 
> Reboot starting with inittab=5, it won't even display the initial login
> screen.
> 
>  2332 tty7     Ss+    0:00 /usr/bin/Xorg :1 -br -verbose -auth
> /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-XS1GRQ/database -nolisten tcp
>  2342 tty8     Ss+    0:00 /usr/bin/Xorg :2 -br -verbose -auth
> /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-8OLaWQ/database -nolisten tcp
>  2351 tty9     Ss+    0:00 /usr/bin/Xorg :3 -br -verbose -auth
> /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-j3mb22/database -nolisten tcp
>  2360 tty10    Ss+    0:00 /usr/bin/Xorg :4 -br -verbose -auth
> /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-ywqo7q/database -nolisten tcp
>  2414 tty11    Ss+    0:00 /usr/bin/Xorg :5 -br -verbose -auth
> /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-XvXic1/database -nolisten tcp
<snip>

What does /var/log/Xorg.0.log say?

I ran into something like this by setting up ntpd to start in
NetworkManager/dispatcher.d.  Apparently Xorg (or gdm) doesn't like
having the time set as it's starting up.  I fixed the problem by adding
a new service that just waits until all the NetworkManager/dispatcher.d
functions have finished.

Jonathan
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