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My ancient but up-to-date debian laptop's GDM is hanging.Pentium III (Coppermine), 600MHz, 512 MB RAM, internal 6 GB and external 40 GB HDs, S3 Savage/MX-MV video.
I can ssh in; command-line stuff seems exactly as performant as usual. pgrep'ing gdm seems to show GDM repeatedly respawning gdm-greeter; it never shows up on screen. I can kill GDM, leaving a blank screen, and do a clean shut down, but on restart GDM just hangs again with a wristwatch pointer on a solid black background.
Mouse movement updates to the pointer occur, so I guess the X server is OK; as expected, Ctl-Alt-F1 gets me a working console prompt; Ctl- Alt-F7 gets me back to the wristwatch.
There's plenty of space on both the external USB HD, housing /home and showing 55% full, and the internal HD, housing everything else in one partition and showing 86% full. Both formatted ext3 and mounting clean. Small swap partitions on both.
Other hardware: PCMCIA 10/100 Mbps Ethernet card, USB Bluetooth dongle, USB mouse.
Nothing newly installed or updated that I can think of since the last working boot. The machine is used by all four members of my family but only I can run apt* or sudo.
What should I do? -- Phil Hudson PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63 http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz @UWascalWabbit -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq