FishFoot
July 21st, 2008, 01:49 AM
Hey everybody,
I was happily running Feisty with 2 monitors on an ATI Radeon X1300 and decided to upgrade for better ATI support. I did an upgrade to Gutsy and afterward couldn't start the GUI at all. After trying a couple of different package upgrades I decided to just try to upgrade again to Hardy. Everything worked and GDM starts up. Unfortunately I can't get any actual sessions to start. I get a message that says "Your login lasted less than 10 seconds..." and then I get kicked back to the main GDM menu. When I try to start a failsafe session I get a white box in the top right corner (which looks like an error message) but no text appears. At that point it just hangs.
I am told to look at the ~/.xsession-errors file which has the following:
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
/usr/bin/xmodmap: unable to open file '/usr/share/apps/kxkb/ubuntu.xmodmap' for reading
/usr/bin/xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Starting Xgl with options: -accel xv:pbuffer -accel glx:pbuffer -nolisten tcp -fullscreen -br +xinerama
xmodmap: unable to open display ':2'
(x-session-manager:12193): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :2
I was happily running Feisty with 2 monitors on an ATI Radeon X1300 and decided to upgrade for better ATI support. I did an upgrade to Gutsy and afterward couldn't start the GUI at all. After trying a couple of different package upgrades I decided to just try to upgrade again to Hardy. Everything worked and GDM starts up. Unfortunately I can't get any actual sessions to start. I get a message that says "Your login lasted less than 10 seconds..." and then I get kicked back to the main GDM menu. When I try to start a failsafe session I get a white box in the top right corner (which looks like an error message) but no text appears. At that point it just hangs.
I am told to look at the ~/.xsession-errors file which has the following:
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
/usr/bin/xmodmap: unable to open file '/usr/share/apps/kxkb/ubuntu.xmodmap' for reading
/usr/bin/xmodmap: 1 error encountered, aborting.
Checking for nVidia: not present.
Starting Xgl with options: -accel xv:pbuffer -accel glx:pbuffer -nolisten tcp -fullscreen -br +xinerama
xmodmap: unable to open display ':2'
(x-session-manager:12193): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :2