Bug#251979: gdm doesn't start - says, that there is already
runing X server
Mantas Kriauciunas
Mantas Kriauciunas <mantas@akl.lt>, 251979@bugs.debian.org
Tue, 01 Jun 2004 02:02:45 +0300
Package: gdm
Version: 2.4.4.7-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Hi,
When I upgraded gdm to version 2.4.4.7-1 it stops to work - I always
get gray X screen instead and when I move mouse cursor computer goes to
text mode and this message appears:
There already appears to be an X server running on display :0.
Should I try another display number? If you answer no, I will
attempt to start the server on :0 again.
System reboot with ctrl+alt+del doesn't help - I always get same situation
when gdm tries to start during system startup. Upgrading to 2.4.4.7-3
doesn't help too :( Only downgrading to old gdm version from debian
stable helps, but this version is very old and doesn't contain features,
which I need.
Same bug is reproducible on several systems, but on some system new gdm
works. I think bug is in dependancies - it seems, that gdm should depend
to newer versions of some libraries, but I don't know which libraries I
should upgrade :(
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.3-1-k7
Locale: LANG=lt_LT, LC_CTYPE=lt_LT
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.47 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.2.23woody1 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.18 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii gksu 1.0.7-1 graphical frontend to su
ii gnome-session 2.4.1-1 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-terminal [x-termi 2.4.2-5 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-5 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.4.1-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1 2.4.16-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libbonobo2-0 2.4.3-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.4.3-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgconf2-4 2.4.0.1-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 2.0.1-3woody4 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.2.3-0jds1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.4.0-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.4.0-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.4.0.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.4.1-2 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnomevfs2-common 2.4.1-2 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgsf-1 1.9.0-1 Structured File Library - runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.2.2-1woody2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii liborbit2 1:2.8.1-4 Libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpam-modules 0.72-35 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 0.76-14 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.76-14 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.2.3-1woody2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-2 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii librsvg2-2 2.5.0-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libselinux1 1.12-1 SELinux shared libraries
ii libwrap0 7.6-9 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libxml2 2.6.8-1 GNOME XML library
ii metacity [x-window-mana 1:2.4.55-2woody1 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii sawfish [x-window-manag 1:1.3-5 A window manager for X11
ii xbase-clients 4.2.1-3.woody3 miscellaneous X clients
ii xlibs 4.2.1-12.1 X Window System client libraries
ii xterm [x-terminal-emula 4.1.0-16 X terminal emulator
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-3 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm