Fedora Core 5 Test Update: gdm-2.14.4-1.fc5.2
Benjy Grogan
benjy.grogan at gmail.com
Wed Jun 7 16:10:40 UTC 2006
On 6/6/06, Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 08:08:47PM -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> > GDM didn't startup after the update:
>
> It seems that it is good to have an "overspecified"
> /etc/gdm/custom.conf as I did not notice that something went
> awry. Of course that also means that I missed the bug. :-)
>
> Seriously though. At least for the time beeing you can
> override wrong locations and commands in your custom.conf.
> Whatever you will change will take a precedence over
> /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf, which you can use as a source
> of patterns, and gdm will start working again.
To fix the problem I had to first 'chmod +w
/usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf' as root and then replace all instances
of '/usr/X11R6/bin' to '/usr/bin' in defaults.conf. I have a
custom.conf as well but it's not overspecified.
Then it worked. I guess the latest GDM rpm is borked then?
Benjy
>
> Michal
>
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