Gnome gdm doesn't always log in automatically

[kmacphail]

I have my Gentoo system running exactly the way I want it apart from one annoyance. I use the Gnome desktop environment(64 bit) and gdm as my login. In the settings the enable autologin is selected for the appropriate user, however this only occurs about a third of the time, the other two thirds I am greeted with the gdm login screen requesting a username and password.

I know that this is a minor error, but I would really like the auto login to work all of the time, this allows the wife and other visitors to house to use my PC without needing to know my password. I hope that this is something simple and I am just having a dozey moment by not spotting it.

[paulusbrand]

Is your xdm in boot runlevel? If so try default runlevel.

[kmacphail]

When I type

Code: Select all

rc-update add xdm default

I am greeted with the message:

Code: Select all

 * xdm already installed in runlevel 'default'; skipping

Is that covering what your asking?

[cach0rr0]

Is that covering what your asking?

it does, though as a point for future reference, you can:

Code: Select all

rc-status

or

Code: Select all

rc-update show 

or to be more specific

Code: Select all

rc-update show default

For example:

Code: Select all

# rc-update show default
             apache2 | default 
             distccd | default 
            iptables | default 
               local | default 
           memcached | default 
               mysql | default 
            net.eth0 | default 
            netmount | default 
            nfsmount | default 
                noip | default 
          ntp-client | default 
           rpc.statd | default 
                sshd | default 
           syslog-ng | default 
      udev-postmount | default 
          vixie-cron | default

I don't have heaps to add to your original issue, other than to enquire as to why GDM is even necessary in your case since you only ever have one user that will be using X.

[paulusbrand]

Yes it does,

Sometimes if xdm starts in boot runlevel not all nessecary services are running for gdm to load correct. But that's not the problem. You can enable debug messages in gdm. After gdm failing to login automatically you can read them in /var/log/messages. Maybe something comes up.

[kmacphail]

enquire as to why GDM is even necessary in your case since you only ever have one user that will be using X

I am the only user, however Gnome is not my only X graphical environment, just my default one.

[kmacphail]

After gdm failing to login automatically you can read them in /var/log/messages

I will take a look, I stupidly did not think of checking the log (d'oh!!!!). The next time it happens I will check and if it is unclear I will post the output on the forum

[kmacphail]

Solved.

There appears to have been a bit of issues with my graphics card driver, it didn't seem to affect my desktop too much (Compiz etc still worked fine) but I was noticing that sometimes on startup I would be greeted with the NVIDIA logo and other times not. I updated my graphics card driver to a more recent one and then reinstalled the driver.

Now my login screen works every time