xdm: very long pause after login

[dark_mail at gmx.net]

Andrew J. Barr wrote:
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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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> 
Didn't work.
Looks still the same.

Thanks, anyway, for helping, and I'll consider your advice :-)