It seems that gdm has DEBUG enabled. Few messages that I read show nothing abnormal, just information what gdm is doing.

I understood that 'debug' would mean the boot process found something wrong & was trying to rectify it. Is there a way to remove the 'debug' option from gdm? (only if it is safe to do so)

What version is a gdm?

No idea. But the gnome version is 2.22 (Nautilus displays as 2.22.2).

Do you use some other repositories except official?

I have enabled the OSS & non-OSS repos & a few others as well. Here is the list of repos (it's a no paste URL) - http://rafb.net/p/dOCriy39.html Thanks, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sunday 31 August 2008 05:10:23 am Jay Mistry wrote:

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What version is a gdm?

Just checked: gdm version is GDM 2.20.4

Try this as root: # zypper if gdm It will give you detailed information, like: Repository: openSUSE-11.0-Oss Name: gdm Version: 2.20.4-30.1 ... That will list more information that might be relevant to the problem. Please post that. You listed quite a few repositories and many are home directories of openSUSE Build Service users, which can hold experimental stuff that is used to debug software, and that might be why gdm is in debug mode. Above command will give more information about gdm and hopfully point to a problem. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sunday 31 August 2008 01:12:26 pm Jay Mistry wrote:

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What version is a gdm?

Just checked: gdm version is GDM 2.20.4

Try this as root: # zypper if gdm

It will give you detailed information, like: Repository: openSUSE-11.0-Oss Name: gdm Version: 2.20.4-30.1 ...

That will list more information that might be relevant to the problem. Please post that.

You listed quite a few repositories and many are home directories of openSUSE Build Service users, which can hold experimental stuff that is used to debug software, and that might be why gdm is in debug mode.

Above command will give more information about gdm and hopfully point to a problem.

Here is the output of the command (nopaste URL): http://rafb.net/p/swME0z35.html

PS: You can ignore , ... as that is the install medium (DVD) for this openSUSE 11.0 installation (refers to a computer magazine 'Digit' ; DVD of the current issue was a bootable openSUSE 11 install DVD). I installed openSUSE 11 from this DVD.

OK. I'll copy the output in this email, as http://rafb.net/ has no other data anymore. I tried to see what repository is the one that you named openSUSE-11.0-FTP 11.0 , but list is already gone. Information for package gdm: Repository: openSUSE-11.0-FTP 11.0 Name: gdm Version: 2.20.4-30.1 Arch: i586 Vendor: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany Installed: Yes Status: up-to-date Installed Size: 3.0 M Summary: The GNOME 2.x Display Manager Description: ... I checked http://bugzilla.novell.com , but I can't find any bug reports that talk about DEBUG enabled. Above is gdm released with openSUSE 11.0 Funny, even Google has only your post here and on alt.os.linux.suse as query result. I have strong feeling that some of packages that you installed from OBS home repositories did that. The gdm probably can be set in debug mode, in a script that is starting it, by providing environmental variable like DEBUG=1 . The name can be different and that is what I'm trying to decipher now looking for strings in gdm binary. I'll post if I find anything. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org