Login...again?

Alien_Hominid · 11-30-2007, 08:51 AM

Don't know how this is related, but error is the same:
http://www.unixadmintalk.com/f61/res...server-509121/

adriv · 11-30-2007, 03:40 PM

I can't imagine that there is a direct link between the login problem and the suspend problem.
But I'll give it a try.

Code:

Option "NvAGP" "1"

in the "Device" section, after the line 'Vendor Name "NVidia"' in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

firebird · 12-01-2007, 08:34 AM

I used to have such login failure before with kdm (XFCE session, KDE session might also have the problem but I cannot remember. My notes only mention XFCE session). I checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/kdm.log, nothing unusual found. I also tried to enable kdm debug in /etc/rc.d/rc.4:

Code:

exec /usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon -debug 15

Still nothing found.

However, I happen to find in ~/.xsession-errors that xfce4 agent cannot start because ICE socket cannot be established. I start system in single user mode, remove most temporary files under /tmp (remove .ICE-unix should be enough), and restart the system. The login problem is fixed immediately. I implemented a shutdown script to cleanup /tmp shortly after that, the login failure never happened since then. You can have a try, see if it helps.

BTW, I also have nVidia card, a very old one: NV15 [GeForce2 GTS/Pro] (rev a4). In my experience, nv driver in X.Org 7.2 did have some problem, I've experienced quite some X lockup (X uses 100% CPU) in Slackware (12.0), Debian (etch) and Ubuntu (7.04). But X.Org 7.3 on -current is quite good, I've upgraded shortly after it appeared on -current, no lockup has ever happened since then. If you have such problem with nVidia, you could give it a try.

adriv · 12-01-2007, 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by firebird

I used to have such login failure before with kdm (XFCE session, KDE session might also have the problem but I cannot remember. My notes only mention XFCE session). I checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/kdm.log, nothing unusual found. I also tried to enable kdm debug in /etc/rc.d/rc.4:

Code:

exec /usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon -debug 15

Still nothing found.

However, I happen to find in ~/.xsession-errors that xfce4 agent cannot start because ICE socket cannot be established. I start system in single user mode, remove most temporary files under /tmp (remove .ICE-unix should be enough), and restart the system. The login problem is fixed immediately. I implemented a shutdown script to cleanup /tmp shortly after that, the login failure never happened since then. You can have a try, see if it helps.

BTW, I also have nVidia card, a very old one: NV15 [GeForce2 GTS/Pro] (rev a4). In my experience, nv driver in X.Org 7.2 did have some problem, I've experienced quite some X lockup (X uses 100% CPU) in Slackware (12.0), Debian (etch) and Ubuntu (7.04). But X.Org 7.3 on -current is quite good, I've upgraded shortly after it appeared on -current, no lockup has ever happened since then. If you have such problem with nVidia, you could give it a try.

First reboot looks fine. I'll let you know if it sticks.

adriv · 12-30-2007, 01:36 PM

I forgot all about this thread, but this one reminded me of it.

And BTW, I haven't seen the log-in crashes anymore.

Franklin · 12-30-2007, 08:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by adriv

/var/log/syslog shows this error:

Code:

Nov 27 05:47:24 Slackware kdm[2699]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly
Nov 27 05:47:27 Slackware kdm_greet[3104]: Can't open default user face
Nov 27 05:58:54 Slackware kdm[2699]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly
Nov 27 05:58:57 Slackware kdm_greet[3221]: Can't open default user face

I believe KDM is set to load a user picture and can't find or open the default picture. Go to the control center > login manager > users > user images and either turn off this option or find out what happened to the default face picture. I've seen this happen for KDM and GDM.

HTH