Fedora 18: No GDM on boot.

[Adam Jackson]

On 11/8/12 7:17 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> My f18 system doesn't pull up a login screen on boot. It just waits.
> Restarting the gdm.service from a virtual terminal gets it up though,
> but I need to this at every boot now.
>
> Here's the gdm.service status when it didn't come up:
> http://paste.stg.fedoraproject.org/1590/
>
> I checked the xorg logs as suggested. They seem to have nouveau related
> issues:
> http://paste.stg.fedoraproject.org/1592/

An excerpt:

/var/log/Xorg.1.log:[    27.316] (EE) [drm] Could not set DRM device bus ID.

This is X's cryptic way of saying someone else already owns the DRM 
device.  Almost certainly plymouth.  What version of plymouth are you 
running?

- ajax