[SOLVED] Gnome 3 won't start after kernel upgrade

Question

I have upgraded to kernel 3.0, and now I am getting the following error when I try to start gdm:
** (gdm-binary:936): WARNING **: Failed to acquire org.gnome.DisplayManager
** (gdm0binary:936): WARNING **: Could not acquire name: bailing out
Can anybody explain what the deal is?
Last edited by spiritwalker (2011-08-17 16:50:44)

Answer 1

theseus, thank you for the reply. I thought you can only start gnome using some kind of display manager. If I understood you correctly, I did 'telinit 5' and then 'startx' with the folowing results:
INIT: Switching to runlevel: 5
INIT: cannot execute "/usr/bin/xdm" <---- This line repeats 10 times
INIT: ID "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
But when I did 'who -r' I got this:
run-level 5 2011-08-16 02:26 last = 4
So I tried to start X wich resulted in the following:
http://i.imgur.com/yydcd.png
http://i.imgur.com/RNapr.png
http://i.imgur.com/NnFaM.png
Also, arch is installed in a virtual box, so I didn't install any video drivers like nvidia.
Thanks
Moderator edit:
spiritwalker, please do not post pictures of this large size: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_Code
In this specific case you could have made use the log files in /var/log and posted the relevant info in [ code ] tags.
Besides, this way you will get used to work with logs, which is mandatory in Arch, imo.
Last edited by bernarcher (2011-08-17 13:33:28)