xdm: very long pause after login

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 10:59:28 -0500 "Andrew J. Barr"
<andrew.james.barr at gmail.com> babbled:

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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.

ummm... not sure lo is relevant - your DISPLAY should be :0 - ie "unix sockets"
so it won't care if you have a lo interface or not (socket would
be /tmp/.X11-unix/X0).

> 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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