pingoo
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Joined: 11 Jul 2006
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 Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 9:47 am Post subject: [solved] gdm locked and X doesn't start as normal user |
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Hi,
I had to reinstall the system from stage4 after a repair, on a new hard disk. First I had serious difficult to understand why at the begin the system didn't start (kernel panic - cannot open root device), at the end I discovered that I had to change the config because something had changed:
| Code: | lshw before:
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: HM65 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
version: 04
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-storage
>> description: SATA controller
>> product: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 port SATA AHCI Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
version: 04
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: storage msi pm ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list
>> configuration: driver=ahci latency=0
resources: irq:41 ioport:4088(size=8) ioport:4094(size=4) ioport:4080(size=8) ioport:4090(size=4) ioport:4060(size=32) memory:d1708000-d17087ff
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| Code: | lshw after:
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: HM65 Express Chipset Family LPC Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
version: 04
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master cap_list
>> configuration: driver=lpc_ich latency=0
resources: irq:0
*-ide:0
>> description: IDE interface
>> product: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 4 port SATA IDE Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
version: 04
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list
>> configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0
resources: irq:19 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:4090(size=16) ioport:4080(size=16)
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But the disk is the same (?)
| Code: | *-scsi
physical id: 0
logical name: scsi0
capabilities: emulated
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: ST320LT020-9YG14
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I don't understand what changed (the cable?) and if it's better now...
EDIT: I think they changed the option in the bios, now I selected the AHCI option and is as was before... (but another "OS" didn't appreciate the switch)
But now I had problem with gdm that starts but is locked, just the waiting cursor appears. I stopped gdm and tried startx as normal user but I got the message:
| Code: | xauth: file /home/<user>/.serverauth.20440 does not exist
Fatal server error: cannot move old file "/var/log/Xorg.1.log" to "/var/log/Xorg.1.log.old"
(EE)
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If I exec startx as root, it starts without problem. Some info:
| Code: | $ groups <user>
wheel audio video usb users plugdev <user>
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| Code: | # mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,data=ordered) << no nosuid
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=494669,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620)
shm on /dev/shm type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=494669,mode=755)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup_root on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755)
openrc on /sys/fs/cgroup/openrc type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/lib64/rc/sh/cgroup-release-agent.sh,name=openrc)
cpuset on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cpu on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu)
cpuacct on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuacct)
freezer on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
/dev/sda7 on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid)
/dev/sda5 on /root/TMP type ext4 (rw)
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| Code: | $ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
/dev/sda6 / ext4 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda7 /home ext4 noatime 0 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm devtmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
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What can I check/do?
EDIT: the problem was solved removing polkit, recompiling with revdep-rebuil and recompiling xinit |
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