[wellylug] Gnome GDM issues

Gordon Paynter paynter at library.ucr.edu
Sun Jun 27 09:47:37 NZST 2004


> Jethro Carr wrote:

>  > For some reason, when it starts, it states that it could not start the
>  > gdmgreeter program, and then exits.
>  >
>  > When examining the error output I got:
>  > (gdmgreeter:26432): Gtk-WARNING**: cannot open display

Can you run X at all?  Can you run startx as root for example?  That
sounds like an X problem, not a [gkx]dm problem.

Gordon




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