After the last Pacman -Syu, I can't login with gdm. As soon as I clikc on my username, the system seems to freeze... Although not completely: I can
On 06:51 Tue 19 Oct , Guillermo Leira wrote: ping
from other computer, but I can't ssh.
Before I click on the username, the "switch off" icon at the right down corner works. Once I click on the username, nothing else works, and I neither can ctrl-alt-F1 to the console...
Any suggestions/questions?
I have removed GDM and installed SLIM. Now I can login, but the screen shows nothing... And if I try to CTRL-ALT-F1 to the console, the system locks again. It is not a GDM problem.
If I run startx from the command line, X starts.
Any advice?
Best regards,
Guillermo
Hi Guillermo,
try and make yourself a new user. If that one can work with the X-part of your system - then some rights in your local $HOME directory are broken (.xinitrc would be a candidate for this kind of weird behaviour, but also .ICEauthority or .Xauthority). If of cause the new user account does have the same problems, your /etx/X11 or worse might have wrong user rights. Have also a look i a file called .xerrors, .xsession-errors - or something like that (can't remember the correct name anymore), there could be some hints in it, if it does exist, what your problem is.
Best regards,
Karl
When you run Slim, you also get a /var/log/slim.log to look at.
I have tried to make a new user, but it has the same problem. I have started X as root, and works. Then I installed xfce, and it hangs as well. Twm runs fine for all users. Gnome and xfce hang even for root. The .xsession-errors file is not updated. It is dated a couple of months ago... I have created an .xinitrc for root, and it also gets locked when I select gnome or xfce. As the system gets completely locked, I have to power cycle it, and the Xorg log files have 0 bytes when I reboot... I checked KMS. I included intel_agp and i915 in mkinitcpio.conf, but it seems to be unrelated to the problem, as twm works. Help... :-( I don't even know what to look for. And I wouldn't like to reinstall the system (that would be too easy). Best Regards, Guillermo Leira