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barry
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 Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 2:48 pm Post subject: Strange issue starting gdm - /var/gdm not found [2005.1 Bug] |
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I've installed 2005.1 and am unable to start gdm from the console:
| Quote: | # gdm
gdm_config_parse: Authdir /var/gdm does not exist. Aborting.
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The directory /var/gdm does exist and has standard permissions. On my old installation, which has the same version of gcc, glibc, xorg-x11, gdm, etc. there are no problems. The user gdm is on both systems and the PAM configuration looks the same. I tried running an strace on both systems. The output is identical until this point:
New:
| Quote: | access("/usr/bin/gdmgreeter", X_OK) = 0
access("/usr/bin/gdmlogin", X_OK) = 0
access("/usr/bin/gdmchooser", X_OK) = 0
stat64("/var/gdm", 0xaf9b49f0) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
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Old:
| Quote: | access("/usr/bin/gdmgreeter", X_OK) = 0
access("/usr/bin/gdmlogin", X_OK) = 0
access("/usr/bin/gdmchooser", X_OK) = 0
stat64("/var/gdm", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0770, st_size=128, ...}) = 0
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Both systems:
| Quote: | File: `/var/gdm'
Size: 176 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 131072 directory
Device: 303h/771d Inode: 336924 Links: 2
Access: (1770/drwxrwx--T) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 32/ gdm)
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| Quote: | File: `/var/gdm'
Size: 72 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 131072 directory
Device: 309h/777d Inode: 335420 Links: 2
Access: (1770/drwxrwx--T) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 32/ gdm)
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I've tried reinstalling gdm, upgrading to the ~x86 version, and even an emerge -e system - the problem remains. Any ideas?
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barry
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| Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I've managed to find the problem:
The stage3 2005.1 athlon-xp archive is broken.
The directory permissions on '/' are incorrect. Changing the permissions to the correct value makes this problem go away. However, I've now no idea if parts of the rest of the installation will be broken too.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101962 |
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JohnY
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| Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:50 am Post subject: |
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Well I just got bit by the same '/' permissions problem. Strangely it didn't show up until I upgraded to gdm-2.14.2.
It only took 3 days of searching to define the problem the right way to find the answer. Oh well, learned at lot about gdm and it's evolution along the way.
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