[indiana-discuss] No graphical login after upgrade from b106 to b108

[Harry Putnam]

Matt Keenan <Matt.Keenan at Sun.COM> writes:

> Just experienced a similar issue but with intel box not nvidia :
>

> - Graphical boot was simply sitting at the happy face scrolling
>   back and forth for ever...
> - Booted into text mode as specified here :
>     http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4762
> - This got me a text console login, logged in and all services
>   were running as normal, so definitely an X issue.

>
> To resolve :
>  - Remove /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>  - Generate new xorg.conf via :
>      /usr/X11/bin/Xorg -configure
>  - Restart gdm:default service
>  - Viola get my graphical login.....
>
>
> So this is not nvidia specific...

I suspect its a gdm issue... heres why.

If I edit /rpool/boot/grub/menu.lst... 
Commenting these lines  
  # splashimage /boot/solaris.xpm
  # foreground d25f00
  # background 115d93

and removing `,consol=graphics' from this line:
  kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS

Then turn off gdm
  svcadm disable gdm

(Note: if you are in X when you run that svcadm cmd it will kill your
X session) 

reboot

You will end up with a console login.

Once logged in, if you run:

 startx /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session

A gnome session will start ok.