[Splashy-users] Gdm not starting with splashy

[Kushal Koolwal]

I am pretty sure it is gdm bug:

Comment out the line:
#log_daemon_msg "Starting GNOME Display Manager" "gdm"

in /etc/init.d/gdm

and give it a try. Worked for me.

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gnome-maintainers/2007-December/040996.html

Kushal Koolwal

I do blog at http://blogs.koolwal.net/



> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:56:27 +0200
> From: jezz at hkfree.org
> To: splashy-users at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Subject: [Splashy-users] Gdm not starting with splashy
> 
> Hi,
> I am testing splashy and I have this problem. After boot, gdm is not started -
> last thing, that splashy prints, is starting gdm. There is some deadlock in gdm
> starting script. Killing it and manually starting gdm via /etc/init.d/gdm works.
> I don't know, if this is splashy or gdm bug, but without splashy gdm is
> starting.
> 
> This is output from pstree:
> |-rc(4026)---S99gdm(5326)---keymap.sh(5355)---unicode_start(5375)---vt-is-UTF8(5378)
> 
> ii  splashy        0.3.10-1
> ii  gdm            2.20.6-1
> ii  console-tools  1:0.2.3dbs-65.1
> 
> -- 
> Jezz
> mail:   jezz at hkfree.org
> jabber: jezz at njs.netlab.cz

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