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renilgh
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 Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:50 am Post subject: Avahi problem / no GDM |
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Ahoy
When I start BLAG Avahi daemon startup fails. When GDM comes up (well, it tries) I just a black screen with loading fedora mouse cursor for a short time, then X goes down and tries to start up up again immediately......
First thing I need to know: How does the init system of BLAG/Fedora work? That is - how can I switch to runlevel 3?
atm it takes me up to 5 switches between the dying Xserver and the tty until I finally managed to login as root (because it automatically switches to GDM). So in order to fix Avahi what I need is a usable access to tty. (:
Thanks in advance,
renilgh
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noldrin
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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you can edit run level here:
/etc/inittab
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jebba
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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Avahi isn't needed for X. You're running BLAGHEAD though or what?
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renilgh
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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I'm on 90k.
X is fine as far as I can see. The problem seems to be in GDM. Doesn't gnome need Avahi somehow?
It's just the first thing that made sense to me - Avahi doesn't come up und GDM fails.
But honestly I can't remember having updated Avahi after last successful bootup.
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jebba
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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Does `startx` and such work?
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renilgh
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:05 am Post subject: |
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| jebba wrote: | | Does `startx` and such work? |
yup, startx works, no problems. But I found out two other things:
1. Baobab is cool
2. /var/log/messages was 6.7GB big and therefore filled the entire / partition.
There are a whole bunch of GDM debug messages but most of its content is:
| Quote: | Jun 9 17:52:38 Igora NetworkManager: nm_supplicant_interface_get_connection_state: assertion `NM_IS_SUPPLICANT_INTERFACE (self)' failed
Jun 9 17:52:38 Igora NetworkManager: nm_supplicant_interface_request_scan: assertion `NM_IS_SUPPLICANT_INTERFACE (self)' failed
Jun 9 17:52:38 Igora NetworkManager: nm_supplicant_interface_get_connection_state: assertion `NM_IS_SUPPLICANT_INTERFACE (self)' failed
Jun 9 17:52:38 Igora NetworkManager: nm_supplicant_interface_request_scan: assertion `NM_IS_SUPPLICANT_INTERFACE (self)' failed
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I just wished it wouldn't be about networking stuff again. ):
atm I'm okay so long as I can do my work but of course it would be fine if I could get everything to normal (:
Has anyone an idea which texteditor is able to deal with with a 6.7GB log file? Emacs knows when buffers are exceeded and nano keeps on loading and slowing down the system until it finally figures that it's run out of memory.. - ?
Anyway I hope I will find some time on the weekend to work this out.
Last edited by renilgh on Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:29 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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renilgh
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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I just tried out if reinstalling NetworkManager would do anything good.
| Quote: | | Reinstallation of NetworkManager is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. |
Is this intended or did anything go wrong?
Did apt-get update, but still get the same result.
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noldrin
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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What are you using to reinstall? Best bet would be synaptic or apt-get.
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jebba
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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Uninstalling and re-installing applications doesn't really do that much unless you believe that there was disk corruption or something. It's more likely that you uninstalled something needed (?).
You could try running `gdm-safe-restart` and see if you can get more info on it.
I think the gdm and avahi things are two separate issues and are unrelated (though never certain of course...avahi may be taking a larger role in things, but I for one am not running it and gdm works fine).
-Jeff
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