I somehow broke XDM, help?

[Loundry]

Greetings all,

I'm not exactly a newbie, but this may as well be a newbie question.

I was testing out a new kernel (which didn't work, but that's beside the point), and when I rebooted back into my old kernel KDM no longer worked.

I am in runlevel 5, naturally. KDM started and I entered my correct login information. Instead of starting KDE, X merely died, restarted, and KDM came back up. I tried entering incorrect login information, and I was presented with "Login incorrect." The X-crashing-KDM-restarting behavior only exhibits itself when correct login information is entered.

I then tried GDM and XDM, and the behavior was replicated across those two as well. So I believe the problem is somewhere in XDM, not KDM.

I dug through the docs of (K|X)DM and was not able to derive anything that would be helpful to me. Does anyone know what might be the cause of my problem?

Thanks,
Jimmy

[knute]

Sounds to me like X is broken.

If you hit <Ctrl><Alt><F1> to get to a terminal window, and then log in, and try startx and see what happens.

If X fails to start, then the messages on the screen will tell you where the log file is and it's name. Normally the reason X died is there as well. :D

That'ld be where I'ld start though.

[Loundry]

> [QUOTE]Originally posted by knute:
> [QB]Sounds to me like X is broken.

> If you hit <Ctrl><Alt><F1> to get to a terminal window, and > then log in, and try startx and see what happens.

Crap, I hate it when I neglect to post all of the relevent information.

X is not broken: I have changed inittdefault to 3 in /etc/inittab and can log in from the VC and "startx" without error. In other words, my machine is still completely usable. I just happen to like the fancy graphical login screen that XDM provides.

Other suggestions?

[LiNuts]

Hi, i had the same problem, when i installed an updated GDM, what my problem was , was that in my gdmconfig there was a mention of an xnest-name server, (i still dont know where it came from), so i removed it, and put the normal X-windows server I.E. /usr/bin/X11/X.
and that fixed the problem for me.

So i would check your XDM - GDM config files.
Hope this helps
Cheers
LiNuts