f10, gui login spawns multiple X sessions, fails

Carl Byington carl at five-ten-sg.com
Sun Feb 8 01:26:26 UTC 2009


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On Sat, 2009-02-07 at 23:11 +0200, Adrian Joian wrote:

> First of all be sure that you have all the nice updates. Then from
> init
> 3 try to debug the xserver system-configure-display should do fine
> for
> starters. Then try again Case 1.

After a yum update, booting to level 3 (inittab=3),
system-config-display things look ok. It knows about the nvidia card,
resolutions are reasonable for the lcd. From that point, startx as root
works nicely. Logoff and 'telinit 5' and user logins work.

Reboot starting with inittab=5, it won't even display the initial login
screen.

 2332 tty7     Ss+    0:00 /usr/bin/Xorg :1 -br -verbose -auth
/var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-XS1GRQ/database -nolisten tcp
 2342 tty8     Ss+    0:00 /usr/bin/Xorg :2 -br -verbose -auth
/var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-8OLaWQ/database -nolisten tcp
 2351 tty9     Ss+    0:00 /usr/bin/Xorg :3 -br -verbose -auth
/var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-j3mb22/database -nolisten tcp
 2360 tty10    Ss+    0:00 /usr/bin/Xorg :4 -br -verbose -auth
/var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-ywqo7q/database -nolisten tcp
 2414 tty11    Ss+    0:00 /usr/bin/Xorg :5 -br -verbose -auth
/var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-XvXic1/database -nolisten tcp

Which is similar to the previous symptoms.

grub.conf shows:

title Fedora (2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686 ro
root=UUID=891802db-5af5-41d3-84a1-2de2803dfe5a quiet irqpoll
        initrd /initrd-2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686.img


I think I added that irqpoll to try to fix previous issues with the
built-in intel video. Is that possibly messing up the nvidia side. But
the symptoms look like a loop trying to bring up X.

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