gdm not finding Default.xml

[Simon Hjorth Bøggild]

Caerie Houchins wrote:

> After today's yum update following my reboot I was greeted with an 
> blue background and an error message stating that the file at 
> /usr/share/gdm/themes/Default/Default.xml could not be opened.  
> Clicking ok here brought me to the gdm login screen with the large 
> flower in the lower right corner.  The username box had three periods 
> in it, and I was unable to type anything in that box.
>
> I checked in the /usr/share/gdm/themes directory and sure enough there 
> was no Default/ .   As a temporary fix I went ahead and made a 
> symbolic link from Bluecurve/ to Default/, then linked Bluecurve.xml 
> to Default.xml.  init 5'ing again and sure enough everything came up 
> just like normal.
>
> Anyone else experience this after today's updates?
>
> Caerie
>
Yup, I had the exact same experience, the Default/ is not there
I booted with init 3, logged on and then started X. Instead of making 
the symbolic link I started up gdmsetup and went to the Graphical 
greeter pane, where I selected Bluecurve. After a reboot everything 
works fine again

Regards Simon