Bug#586007: gdm: GDM fails to start Xserver while XDM starts it successfully

[Andreas Beckmann]

On Tuesday, 15. June 2010 18:37:06 Jakub Lucký wrote:
> my GDM is unable to start Xserver, it fails even before GDM login screen
> appears. Apparently, it seems to be GDM-related problem, because XDM (after
> setting it primary) manages to start Xserver and Gnome then successfully.
>
> GDM starting is blinking between tty1, blank screen and Nvidia logo...
> After some time, it shows the the blue screen "Xserver starts to fail",
> wanna see debug output, but in Xorg.log, there is really nothing
> interesting.
>
> HW: Thinkpad T61, Nvidia Quadro 140

Workaround: increase the gdm timeout:

  For 'gdm' edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and set  (see #521699)
    [daemon]
    GdmXserverTimeout=30

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=521699 (and its merged 
bugs) for details.


Andreas