i have recently installed Ubuntu Breezy Badger. while i installed Gnome, i can't start it (the Gnome) neither from GDM nor from startx -- :1 command. it just shows the screen with mouse cursor in the middle and nothing happens afterwards. and when i press Ctrl-C to get out i see the following errors:
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AUDIT: Tue Aug 23 09:46:39 2005: 7301 X: client 1 rejected from local host
Xlib: connection to "1:0" refused by server
Xlib: no protocol specified

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and ides/solution?

thanks.

Maybe you should file a bug report.
Breezy's still in development. It hasn't officially been released.
If you want something stable, use Hoary.

i know that Breezy is development branch :-)

still, is there any fix? or did somebody had the same problem?

I'm getting the same thing after I upgraded from SuSE 9.3 to SuSE 10.0.

My /var/log/gdm/:0.log file contains about 5000 lines starting with:

gdm_main: Here we go...
gdm_start_first_unborn_local: Starting :0
gdm_display_manage: Managing :0
loop check: last_start 0, last_loop 0, now: 1130368855, retry_count: 0
Resetting counts for loop of death detection
gdm_slave_start: Starting slave process for :0
gdm_slave_start: Loop Thingie
Sending VT_NUM == -1 for slave 23437
Sending VT_NUM 23437 -1
gdm_display_manage: Forked slave: 23437
Handling message: 'VT_NUM 23437 -1'
Got VT_NUM == -1
gdm_server_start: :0
gdm_auth_secure_display: Setting up access for :0
gdm_auth_secure_display: Setting up access
gdm_auth_secure_display: Setting up access for :0 - 1 entries
Sending COOKIE == <secret> for slave 23437
Sending COOKIE 23437 7...
Handling message: 'COOKIE 23437 7...'
Got COOKIE == <secret>
Sending AUTHFILE == /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth for slave 23437
Sending AUTHFILE 23437 /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth
Handling message: 'AUTHFILE 23437 /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth'
Got AUTHFILE == /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth
gdm_server_spawn: '/usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7'
gdm_server_spawn: Forked server on pid 23440
gdm_server_start: Completed :0!
Sending VT_NUM == 7 for slave 23437
Sending VT_NUM 23437 7
Handling message: 'VT_NUM 23437 7'
Got VT_NUM == 7
Sending XPID == 23440 for slave 23437
Sending XPID 23437 23440
Handling message: 'XPID 23437 23440'
Got XPID == 23440
gdm_slave_run: Opening display :0
Oct 26 16:20:56 kelem-laptop kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
Oct 26 16:20:56 kelem-laptop kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
Oct 26 16:20:56 kelem-laptop kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
Oct 26 16:20:57 kelem-laptop kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
Oct 26 16:20:57 kelem-laptop kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
Oct 26 16:20:57 kelem-laptop kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
Sending START_NEXT_LOCAL
Handling message: 'START_NEXT_LOCAL'
gdm_slave_greeter: Running greeter on :0
gdm_slave_greeter: Greeter on pid 23461
Sending GREETPID == 23461 for slave 23437
Sending GREETPID 23437 23461
Handling message: 'GREETPID 23437 23461'
Got GREETPID == 23461
gdm_socket_handler: Accepting new connection fd 8
Handling user message: 'VERSION'
Handling user message: 'GET_CONFIG_FILE'
Handling user message: 'CLOSE'
Handling message: 'GREETPID 23437 0'
Got GREETPID == 0
gdm_slave_greeter: Running greeter on :0
gdm_slave_greeter: Greeter on pid 23470
Sending GREETPID == 23470 for slave 23437
Sending GREETPID 23437 23470
Handling message: 'GREETPID 23437 23470'
Got GREETPID == 23470
gdm_socket_handler: Accepting new connection fd 8
Handling user message: 'VERSION'
Handling user message: 'GET_CONFIG_FILE'
Handling user message: 'CLOSE'
Handling message: 'GREETPID 23437 0'
Got GREETPID == 0
gdm_slave_wait_for_login: In loop
gdm_slave_wait_for_login: end verify for ''
gdm_slave_greeter: Running greeter on :0
gdm_slave_greeter: Greeter on pid 23479
Sending GREETPID == 23479 for slave 23437
Sending GREETPID 23437 23479
Handling message: 'GREETPID 23437 23479'
Got GREETPID == 23479
gdm_socket_handler: Accepting new connection fd 8
Handling user message: 'VERSION'
Handling user message: 'GET_CONFIG_FILE'
Handling user message: 'CLOSE'
Handling message: 'GREETPID 23437 0'
Got GREETPID == 0
gdm_slave_greeter: Running greeter on :0
gdm_socket_handler: Accepting new connection fd 8
Handling user message: 'VERSION'
Handling user message: 'GET_CONFIG_FILE'
Handling user message: 'CLOSE'
gdm_slave_greeter: Greeter on pid 23488
Sending GREETPID == 23488 for slave 23437
Sending GREETPID 23437 23488
Handling message: 'GREETPID 23437 23488'
Got GREETPID == 23488
Handling message: 'GREETPID 23437 0'
Got GREETPID == 0
gdm_slave_wait_for_login: In loop
gdm_slave_wait_for_login: end verify for ''
gdm_slave_greeter: Running greeter on :0
gdm_slave_greeter: Greeter on pid 23497
Sending GREETPID == 23497 for slave 23437
Sending GREETPID 23437 23497
Handling message: 'GREETPID 23437 23497'
Got GREETPID == 23497
gdm_socket_handler: Accepting new connection fd 8
Handling user message: 'VERSION'
Handling user message: 'GET_CONFIG_FILE'
Handling user message: 'CLOSE'
Handling message: 'GREETPID 23437 0'
Got GREETPID == 0
gdm_slave_greeter: Running greeter on :0
gdm_slave_greeter: Greeter on pid 23506
Sending GREETPID == 23506 for slave 23437
Sending GREETPID 23437 23506
Handling message: 'GREETPID 23437 23506'
Got GREETPID == 23506
gdm_socket_handler: Accepting new connection fd 8
Handling user message: 'VERSION'
Handling user message: 'GET_CONFIG_FILE'
Handling user message: 'CLOSE'
Handling message: 'GREETPID 23437 0'
Got GREETPID == 0
gdm_slave_wait_for_login: In loop
gdm_slave_wait_for_login: end verify for ''
gdm_slave_greeter: Running greeter on :0
gdm_socket_handler: Accepting new connection fd 8
Handling user message: 'VERSION'
Handling user message: 'GET_CONFIG_FILE'
Handling user message: 'CLOSE'
gdm_slave_greeter: Greeter on pid 23515
Sending GREETPID == 23515 for slave 23437
Sending GREETPID 23437 23515
Handling message: 'GREETPID 23437 23515'
Got GREETPID == 23515
Handling message: 'GREETPID 23437 0'
Got GREETPID == 0
gdm_slave_greeter: Running greeter on :0
gdm_slave_greeter: Greeter on pid 23524
Sending GREETPID == 23524 for slave 23437
Sending GREETPID 23437 23524
Handling message: 'GREETPID 23437 23524'
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Hi,

It seems I have the same problems.
GDM tends to start gnome, gives me the debian desktop-background, and lets me hanging there afterward. Nothing.

Looked in Xsession.errors --> clean.
gdm log --> clean
any other log --> clean

.gnome files in ~/ I deleted and were created again.

Got this after a clean install from netinstall. Choose basic system and desktop-environment install, which installed. And ran in troubles as mentioned above.

Someone have any clue in how to fix this?

Grtz Decep.

Hmmm, I've been playing arount a bit.

Threw gnome off the system, including gdm.
It uninstalled Xorg, and even tried to uninstall the running kernel.

After installing Xorg again, no windowmanager like KDE or XFCE would startup again.
With startx it would give me the debianlogo background.
Aptitude gives me dependency problems for the openoffice.org-bin package.
Had this problem earlier. Tried to install this package manually in different ways without succes.

My guess is it won't start up for this dependency problem.
Sounds like a bug to me.

Grtz Decep.