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Old 12-11-2003, 03:55 PM   #1
kstarks
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Unhappy How to trace Metacity/GDM greeter error?


I perfomed an update from Ximian Red Carpet on my RH 8 machine which had been significanly updated already, including running on the latest kernel. I tried to update the critical patches from Red Carpet, but this failed due to dependencies in kdebase-3.1-15 conflicting with lisa-3.0.5a-1
cups-1.1.17-13.3.0.3 conficting with man-pages-fr-0.9-9.

Once this had failed, I noticed that I could no longer open a new app under GNOME. I restarted the machine, and X starts, but the hourglass no longer spins, the animation keeps repeating, and the login greeter never appears.

I can still toggle over to getty-1, 2, etc and use command line. When I do ps -aux, I see the normal list of daemons, but nfsd is listed several times, and does not reflect any tty, just a '?'. Same '?' for XFree86, GDMGreeter, etc. Is this normal?

My problem is I don't know if this is X related, Metacity related, or GNOME related, and don't know how to begin to track this.

Any help will be sincerely appreciated.

Keith Starks
 
Old 12-11-2003, 04:09 PM   #2
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nfsd is the NFS daemon. maybe you have lots of "zombie" processes running. do you see anything unusual if you reboot into single user mode?

u might want to use strace to check some processes running on your system:

strace -p X

where X is the PID of the program from ps.

hth.
 
Old 12-12-2003, 10:51 AM   #3
kstarks
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Upon further review, I THINK that the nfsd stuff may be normal. I ran the strace on the greeter, since it is not coming up fully, and got the messages below:

poll([fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI, revents=POLLIN}, {FD=4, EVENTS=POLLIN|POLLPRI]}], 2, -1) = 1
read(3, "\Ngreetpid 14238 2299\n", 4095) = 21
write(6, "A\n", 2) = 2
kill(14238, SIGUSR2) = 0

I really don't know what any of that means, but hopefully someone here does.

Keith Starks
 
  


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