Re: gdmgreeter locking display

2008-04-18 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:11:45AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > As previously reported, after installing Gnome and Xorg the X-Window > startup was trapped in a loop before login and top -i showed root > running a program gdmgreeter with a continuously changing pid. > > Purging Gnome and Xorg a

gdmgreeter locking display

2008-04-18 Thread Thomas H. George
As previously reported, after installing Gnome and Xorg the X-Window startup was trapped in a loop before login and top -i showed root running a program gdmgreeter with a continuously changing pid. Purging Gnome and Xorg and rebooting did not solve the problem. Running apt-get autoremove removed

Re: gdmgreeter locking display

2008-04-18 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 18 April 2008 15:24:49 Thomas H. George wrote: Hi, Do not highjack other people thread. You have to start making a new message, not replying and changing the suject. Well, you must be new here, so welcome anyway, and start with new mail. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

gdmgreeter locking display

2008-04-18 Thread Thomas H. George
The X-Window opens but never reaches the login, just shows a small circle with rotating dots. As root I ran top -i and intermittently it showed root running gdmgreeter but each time it was shown with a different pid and I couldn't kill it. Xorg was also running. Background: I have been using gdm