On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:39 -0500, Josh Kelley wrote: > On 1/16/06, Josh Kelley <joshkel at gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm trying to set up a new CentOS 4.2 desktop, and gdm refuses to > > start. It blanks the screen, displays the swirling blue circle mouse > > cursor that appears to be an hourglass equivalent, then drops back to > > the console window. It repeats this several times then displays the > > following error: > > > > The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 > > seconds, it is likely that something bad is going on. I will wait for > > 2 minutes before trying again on display :0. > > I finally figured out what was wrong. > /etc/pango/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/pango.modules was only readable by > root (permissions set incorrectly by the installer, perhaps?), so > gdmgreeter wasn't able to run. I ended up looking through strace's > output to figure this out; annoyingly, gdmgreeter wrote informative > error messages to stderr, but gdm apparently discarded the output. > (If it logged it anywhere, I couldn't find it.) > > Josh Kelley Just for the record ... the installer does this as mode 644, which is readable by all. I checked on about 25 machines and they we all 644. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060117/37f677cb/attachment-0005.sig>