gdm -- failure - or corrupted - Re: fedora 21 -- 2 different gpu --bmc/ipmi ASPEED -- Nvidia GTX760-- how to select primary

[Kevin Abbey]

Hi Jeff,

Thank you for the note.  In the future I'll attempt what you wrote; to 
remove a package rather than reinstall.  I needed to find a solution and 
get the systems to the users so I simply used the kdm. I discovered with 
kdm that the main display uses #2 (ctrl-alt-F2) and the other consoles 
become inaccessible to the local system display.  These text consoles 
are instead available to the iKVM of the bmc controller.  Yet in the 
iKVM the main display is not viewable (I think because it uses the PCIe 
vga slot.).  Thus after opening the iKVM I need to use the soft 
keyboard, type ctrl-alt-F3 and will then see the text console and can 
use the keyboard.  The affects the main display directly which is alos 
switched but inaccessible to the desktop display.  The usability is not 
ideal but it partially works.  Maybe this is the only option.  I had the 
expectation that the main display and consoles could be available in 
both iKVM and desktop display but this may not be possible since there 
are two gpus involved.  I'm interested to understand this functionality 
in more detail if anyone can explain.  Please forward to a developer if 
you know who may understand.

Since I did not find any clear documentation on gdm and do not have any 
more time to troubleshoot further my only hope is that Supermicro, 
ASPEED and gdm or fedora developers could find a solution.

Thanks again,
Kevin



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For reference, the following are removed if gdm is removed.

Dependencies Resolved

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  Package                            Arch Version               
Repository                  Size
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Removing:
  gdm                                x86_64 1:3.10.0.1-1.fc20     
installed                  4.0 M
Removing for dependencies:
  gdm-libs                           x86_64 1:3.10.0.1-1.fc20     
installed                   36 k
  gnome-initial-setup                x86_64 3.10.1.1-4.fc20       
installed                  1.8 M
  gnome-shell                        x86_64 3.10.4-9.fc20         
@fedora20-x86_64-updates   5.8 M
  gnome-shell-extension-common       noarch 3.10.1-1.fc20         
installed                  371 k
  gnome-shell-extension-user-theme   noarch 3.10.1-1.fc20         
installed                  7.0 k
  gnome-tweak-tool                   noarch 3.10.1-2.fc20         
installed                  694 k
  pulseaudio-gdm-hooks               x86_64 5.0-25.fc20           
@fedora20-x86_64-updates   354

Transaction Summary
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Remove  1 Package (+7 Dependent packages)





On 03/23/2015 04:32 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 03/23/2015 11:52 AM, Kevin Abbey wrote:
>> I tried to reinstall gdm, yum reinstall gdm, but this did not make an
>> difference.
>
> My understanding is that what you did only replaces missing or damaged 
> files, and isn't as thorough as you might think it is. (I'm sure 
> somebody will correct me if I'm wrong.)  If I'm right, you may want to 
> remove gdm completely, and then install it again. When you remove it, 
> don't use -y because you want to know what else, if anything, goes 
> with it.