xdm: very long pause after login

[dark_mail at gmx.net]

dark_mail at gmx.net wrote:
> Andrew J. Barr wrote:
>> Just FYI, please use 'Reply to All' to keep the mailing list CC'd. Also,
>> top posting is considered bad etiqutte by some ML denizens...
>>
>> 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 :-)
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OK, Xfce finally started from xdm after an eternity, but still gkrellm2
won't show up.
Apart from that everything seems normal.