Re: GDM

["Thomas J. Baker" <tjb unh edu>]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 15:16 -0500, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 14:47 -0500, Ray Strode wrote:
> > Hi,
> > > Is it just my box or did others see breakage of GDM with the latest
> > > jumbo update? For whatever reason, it wants to start a "Failsafe GNOME
> > > session" now (it claims that it cannot find or run the base session
> > > script). I'm also getting gdmsetup do "double free or corruption"...
> > This should be fixed in tomorrow's rawhide.  In the mean time,
> > 
> > sed -i -e 's@/etc/X11/gdm@/etc/gdm g' /etc/gdm/custom.conf
> > 
> > should fix things up
> > 
> > --Ray
> > 
> 
> I'm running gdm-2.13.0.7.0.2006.02.12-1 and the /etc/gdm/custom.conf is
> essentially empty (blank sections for daemon, security, etc.). I can't
> log in at all as a normal user although root can. Your sed substitution
> fails to match anything.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> tjb

It doesn't appear my problems are related to gdm. Even at runlevel 3,
startx bombs out too. The biggest suck is that there don't seem to be
any error messages anywhere...

tjb
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