gdm fails to start
Andrzej Maciejewski
maciejka at astro.ia.uz.zgora.pl
Sun Feb 12 09:51:57 UTC 2006
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Andrzej Maciejewski wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Jim Cornette wrote:
> >
> >> Andrzej Maciejewski wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> after the last two updates of kernel I had and have serious problems.
> >>> gdm fails to start and X reports that modules bitmap and pcidata cannot be
> >>> found. I have generate new xorg.conf using Xorg -configure but this does
> >>> not help.
> >>> thanks for any help.
> >>> -Andrzej
> >>>
> >> Have you tried running system-config-display with the --reconfig option?
> >> You might need to drop to runlevel 3 to have good results.
> >>
> >> Jim
> >>
> > I have drop to runlevel 3 and reconfigred display. It does not help; X
> > reprts the same error.
> > -Andrzej
> >
>
> I ran a search and it showed two config files for bitmap.
> /etc/fonts/conf.d/no-bitmaps.conf
> /etc/fonts/conf.d/yes-bitmaps.conf
>
> A package called fontconfig provides these files.
>
> I have modular X, but you should have a similar module named libpcidata.so
>
>
> Sorry the program failed to get you up and running. I don't think that
> your problem is related to the configuration file for xorg. To me, it
> sounds like either X needs an update to be compatible with the kernel,
> the kernel needs to either provide something that was turned off, or
> something went wrong during the update process.
>
> Does X start from a user logged in using runlevel 3 and using startx to
> launch X, or do you get the same error?
>
> Jim
Hi Jim,
after booting gdm does not starts but I can login from text console. Then
I make startx and everything works.
Probably I have made an error while upgrading the kernel. To make this
I have to install newer version of udev.
-Andrzej
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