Re: problems with gdm, can't go to any desktop

[Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 yahoo com>]

--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com> wrote:

> From: Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>
> Subject: Re: problems with gdm, can't go to any desktop
> To: olivares14031 yahoo com, "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list redhat com>
> Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 10:15 AM
> On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 15:05 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > Dear fellow testers,
> > 
> > I have a little problem, I think the culprit is gdm. 
> I start my computer and I try to login to a user and it
> gives me the login screen again.  I do it again and the same
> thing happens.  I then restart my machine in level 3 and
> login as myself and type startx and my X session begins.  
> > 
> > Video Card is an ATI radeon, hopefully will be ready
> for that TEST DAY?
> > 
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies
> Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
> > 
> > [root riohigh ~]# rpm -qa gdm*
> > gdm-2.26.0-7.fc11.i586
> > 
> > This happens on only one machine, the other one logins
> fine automagically :), and it has INTEL chipset(Toshiba
> Laptop)  
> 
> Take a look at the file ~/.xsession-errors - it may have
> some useful
> messages in it.
> -- 
> Adam Williamson
> Fedora QA Community Monkey
> IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
> http://www.happyassassin.net

I will attach file.  Hope we can find out what is wrong?

Regards,

Antonio 


imsettings information
==========================
Is DBus enabled: yes
Is imsettings enabled: yes
Is GTK+ supported: no
Is Qt supported: no
DESKTOP_SESSION: kde
DISABLE_IMSETTINGS: 
IMSETTINGS_DISABLE_DESKTOP_CHECK: 
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS: unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-gRz3B2HDMG,guid=8f1178832a47c8a912684bdd49d35a23
GTK_IM_MODULE: gtk-im-context-simple
QT_IM_MODULE: xim
XMODIFIERS: @im=imsettings
IMSETTINGS_MODULE: none
IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP: yes

***
*** imsettings is explicitly disabled.
***
imsettings information
==========================
Is DBus enabled: yes
Is imsettings enabled: no
Is GTK+ supported: no
Is Qt supported: no
DESKTOP_SESSION: kde
DISABLE_IMSETTINGS: 1
IMSETTINGS_DISABLE_DESKTOP_CHECK: 
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS: unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-gRz3B2HDMG,guid=8f1178832a47c8a912684bdd49d35a23
GTK_IM_MODULE: gtk-im-context-simple
QT_IM_MODULE: xim
XMODIFIERS: @im=none
IMSETTINGS_MODULE: none
IMSETTINGS_INTEGRATE_DESKTOP: yes

*** DRY RUN MODE: running IM without imsettings
startkde: Starting up...
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/libexec/kde4/klauncher
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kded4
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode: 20 (X_GetProperty)
  Resource id:  0xc00003
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/libexec/kde4/kconf_update
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kcminit_startup
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode: 20 (X_GetProperty)
  Resource id:  0xc00003
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/libexec/kde4/kconf_update
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/ksmserver
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode: 20 (X_GetProperty)
  Resource id:  0xc00003
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode: 20 (X_GetProperty)
  Resource id:  0xc00003
kephald starting up 
XRANDR error base:  160 
RRInput mask is set!! 
RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode:  77 1024 x 768 
RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode:  78 1024 x 768 
RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode:  79 800 x 600 
RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode:  80 800 x 600 
RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode:  81 640 x 480 
RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode:  82 640 x 480 
RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode:  83 720 x 400 
RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding mode:  84 0 x 0 
RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding crtc:  73 
RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding crtc:  74 
RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding output:  75 
Setting CRTC 73 on output "VGA-0" (previous 0 ) 
CRTC outputs: (75) 
Output name: "VGA-0" 
Output refresh rate: 75.0762 
Output rect: QRect(0,0 1024x768) 
Output rotation: 1 
RandRScreen::loadSettings - adding output:  76 
Setting CRTC 0 on output "DVI-0" (previous 0 ) 
XRandROutputs::init 
got a valid edid block... 
vendor code: "DEL" 
product id: 29451 
serial number: 1096037714 
  added output  75 
  added output  76 
output: "DVI-0" QRect(0,0 0x0) 0 false false 
output: "VGA-0" QRect(0,0 1024x768) 0 false false 
load xml 
connected: 1 
looking for current "VGA-0" 
known "*" has score: 0.125 
screen: 0 QRect(0,0 1024x768) 
looking for a matching configuration... 
connected: 1 
looking for current "VGA-0" 
known "*" has score: 0.125 
found outputs, known: false 
connected: 1 
looking for current "VGA-0" 
known "*" has score: 0.125 
activate external configuration!! 
registered the service: true 
screens registered on the bus: true 
outputs registered on the bus: true 
configurations registered on the bus: true 
kdeinit4: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit4: sending SIGHUP to children.
klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
kdeinit4: sending SIGTERM to children.
kdeinit4: Exit.
KCrash: Application 'ksmserver' crashing...
Qt-subapplication: Fatal IO error: client killed
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
KCrash cannot reach kdeinit, launching directly.
Unexpected response from KInit (response = 0).
startkde: Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation.
kwin: Fatal IO error: client killed
Error: Can't open display: :0
Could not connect to D-Bus server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-gRz3B2HDMG: Connection refused
startkde: Shutting down...
kdeinit4_wrapper: Warning: connect(/home/olivares/.kde/socket-riohigh/kdeinit4__0) failed: : No such file or directory
Error: Can not contact kdeinit4!
kded4: Fatal IO error: client killed
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
QWidget: Must construct a QApplication before a QPaintDevice
No protocol specified
xprop:  unable to open display ':0'
usage:  xprop [-options ...] [[format [dformat]] atom] ...

where options include:
    -grammar                       print out full grammar for command line
    -display host:dpy              the X server to contact
    -id id                         resource id of window to examine
    -name name                     name of window to examine
    -font name                     name of font to examine
    -remove propname               remove a property
    -set propname value            set a property to a given value
    -root                          examine the root window
    -len n                         display at most n bytes of any property
    -notype                        do not display the type field
    -fs filename                   where to look for formats for properties
    -frame                         don't ignore window manager frames
    -f propname format [dformat]   formats to use for property of given name
    -spy                           examine window properties forever

No protocol specified
xprop:  unable to open display ':0'
usage:  xprop [-options ...] [[format [dformat]] atom] ...

where options include:
    -grammar                       print out full grammar for command line
    -display host:dpy              the X server to contact
    -id id                         resource id of window to examine
    -name name                     name of window to examine
    -font name                     name of font to examine
    -remove propname               remove a property
    -set propname value            set a property to a given value
    -root                          examine the root window
    -len n                         display at most n bytes of any property
    -notype                        do not display the type field
    -fs filename                   where to look for formats for properties
    -frame                         don't ignore window manager frames
    -f propname format [dformat]   formats to use for property of given name
    -spy                           examine window properties forever

startkde: Done.