xdm: very long pause after login

[Andrew J. Barr]

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On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 16:48 +0100, dark_mail at gmx.net wrote:
> lo is up , and in /etc/hosts I have a line assigning localhost and my
> hostname to 127.0.0.1.
> 
> Btw:
> xdm just respawned when trying to start Xfce, garbling VT1 along with
> it. I just got back to the login screen.

Okay, the next thing to try is X display permissions. I've had issues
where I've changed the hostname of my computer and then the X server
denies connections from clients. If you can get to an X terminal, type
in 'xhost +' and try to start Xfce. That isn't the solution, per se, but
it will tell you that your problem is display permissions if it works.

That's all I've got so if that isn't it someone else will have to try to
help.

HTH,
Andrew

> Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 16:30 +0100, dark_mail at gmx.net wrote:
> >> As of today xdm stops working after I have logged in.
> >>
> >> When using windowmaker, there is a very, very long pause before it
> >> actually starts. Xfce seems not to start at all, but maybe it needs even
> >> longer to start up. During this time, only the mouse cursor is
> >> displayed. CPU load is around zero, there is only a short burst of disk
> >> activity, and the log files don't show anything strange.
> > 
> > Sounds like your loopback interface isn't up. Make sure that the 'lo'
> > interface is configured by your bootup scripts and that you have an
> > entry for 'localhost' (and your computer's hostname) in /etc/hosts.
> > 
> >> When i log on using the commandline I can start Xfce without any
> >> problems using "startx" or "startxfce4", everything except gkrellm2
> >> works fine (that might be due to runlevel).
> >>
> >> Gdm runs like a charm.
> >>
> >> I can't recall having changed anything between yesterday (when it
> >> worked) and today regarding X.
> >>
> >> I'm using Xfce 4.2 on a Gentoo system, xdm is 1.0.5.
> >>
> >> It's not the missing sessreg issue, I had that already, and
> >> XSTATICVT="yes" is set in /etc/conf.d/xdm.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have a clue what went wrong?
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