lost most gdm features/functions after today's update...

Tom London selinux at gmail.com
Fri Jul 7 20:54:23 UTC 2006


On 7/7/06, Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/7/06, Richard Hally <rhally at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > Tom,
> >         I have the same symptoms here, but booting with enforcing=0 or
> > "setenforce 0" from the console make the symptoms go away.
> > KDE wfm as an alternative(since I had already had it installed).
> > Richard
> >
> Problem solved!
>
> Turns out that I had 'save session on logout' box checked. So when I
> booted the 'first' time after the update in enforcing mode, metacity
> died, and was not 'included' in the saved session state.
>
> Each time thereafter when I booted in permissive mode, metacity was
> just not started with the rest of my session.
>
> I manually ran metacity in a terminal window; it start successfully. I
> logged out (saving it in the session), and then logged in again.  Lo
> and behold, metacity is not running (in permissive mode, of course).
>
> A question: should it be more difficult to remove metacity from the session?
>
Oops....typo:
'and behold, metacity is NOW running (in permissive mode.....)

tom
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Tom London




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