Fedora Core 5 Test Update: gdm-2.14.4-1.fc5.2

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Thu Jun 8 12:12:44 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 18:33 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Jim Bevier wrote:
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Chiodini" 
> > <robert.chiodini-1 at ksc.nasa.gov>
> > To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" 
> > <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:02 AM
> > Subject: Re: Fedora Core 5 Test Update: gdm-2.14.4-1.fc5.2
> > 
> > 
> >> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 10:51 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:10:40PM -0400, Benjy Grogan wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > 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.
> >>>
> >>> That is precisely what I suggested NOT to do.  Instead of changing
> >>> /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf you can override settings in
> >>> /etc/gdm/custom.conf.  Both to fix some mistakes and to make your
> >>> own changes.  This is exactly why you have the later file.
> >>> 'defaults.conf' will get clobbered on the next update.
> >>>
> >>> > I guess the latest GDM rpm is borked then?
> >>>
> >>> Indeed.  In no uncertain terms.
> >>>
> >>>    Michal
> >>>
> >>
> >> At least the changes to /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf will revert back to
> >> default (hopefully correct) on the next update,
> >> whereas /etc/gdm/custom.conf will not (I assume).
> >>
> >> Therefore, change /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf for the workaround
> >> and /etc/gdm/custom.conf for customization.
> >>
> >> Bob...
> > 
> > You can also do a workaround by doing a 'ln -s ../../bin/X X' in the 
> > /usr/X11R6/bin directory.
> > 
> > Jim
> 
> Or yum erase gdm, which I did.
> 
> At first symptom, a respawning gdm, I ran system-config-display thinking 
> it was a problem with the xorg-updates. X started with startx.
> Upon the next reboot, gdm crashed again.
> 
> Anyway, other factors are broken with gdm. One of the problems is to 
> configure auto-login and probably other features as well.
> 
> I noticed gdm is updated within the last development updates. Is it safe 
> to install again?

It should be, I'm about to reboot to test :)  Jeremy rebuilt yesterday
with a fix targetted at this exact problem.

Dan

> Jim Cornette
> 
> 
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