After a power failure (not necessarily *because* of it, though), gdm
does not start anymore. It starts the X server but does not give the
login window, then it closes X and attempts to start once again. At
last, gdm gives the following message: "The display server has been
shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds, it is likely that
something bad is going on. I will wait for 2 minutes before trying
again on display :0."
Still, I can run X with startx and I get full Gnome desktop. The X and
gdm logs do not show anything especially serious.
The last lines of XFree86.0.log:
(II) Generic Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
Warning: font renderer for ".pcf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pmf" already registered at priority 0
Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
(II) I810(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel
(II) I810(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xd0232000 at 0x40292000
(WW) I810(0): Setting the original video mode instead of restoring
the saved state
(II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 8
(II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 0
(II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 2
(II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 1
(II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 3
(II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 4
(II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 5
(II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 6
(II) I810(0): xf86UnbindGARTMemory: unbind key 7
The last lines of gdm/:0.log:
Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.8-2-686
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian
1:3.3.5-13)) #1 Tue Aug 16 13:22:48 UTC 2005
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu Apr 13 14:39:49 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_clip.o":
No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_norm.o":
No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_xform.o":
No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_vertex.o":
No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.o": No
symbols found
Warning: font renderer for ".pcf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pcf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".snf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.Z" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.gz" already registered at priority 0
Warning: font renderer for ".pmf" already registered at priority 0
Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
But in the /var/log/messages the following lines appear when I try to
restart gdm:
Apr 13 14:44:17 localhost kernel: mtrr: base(0xf0020000) is not
aligned on a size(0x800000) boundary
Apr 13 14:45:04 localhost last message repeated 5 times
The system is mainly stable Debian running on IBM Thinkcentre M50,
kernel 2.6.8-2-686. GDM version 2.6.0.8-1.
Any ideas?
Thank you.
--
With best regards,
Dmitri Minaev
