GDM Login Failure

Thomas J. Baker tjb at unh.edu
Thu Aug 25 13:41:48 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 14:55 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 14:43 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:40:00AM -0400, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> > > For the last couple of days, gdm login fails with "Cannot start the
> > > session due to some internal error." It fails with any session. I search
> > > bugzilla but didn't find any recent bugs like this. Is it just me?
> > 
> > No, I am seeing this, too.
> > 
> 
> same here, but after a fixfiles relabel it seems to have gone away. I
> installed a older version of GDM when those problems with early login
> started, so i dunno if it really is a general thing of something i
> broke, but the log files have the following entry;
> 
> Aug 23 21:24:58 xpc setfiles: relabeling /usr/sbin/gdm-binary from
> system_u:object_r:sbin_t to system_u:object_r:xdm_exec_t
> 
> - Erwin
> 

That fixed it for me too.

tjb
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