How is the X upgrade going?

[Jonathan Corbet]

I had written:

> What happens is that the system appears to boot mostly normally.  At the
> end, though, I get an all-blank screen (either black or white, seems to
> vary) with an arrow-shaped pointer and nothing else.  The pointer is
> responsive to the mouse, so there appears to be a functioning X server
> underneath it all.  But I never get the login screen.

Just to follow up: it seems that I did, indeed, catch GDM at the wrong
time.  I updated the system in question again last night and things are
working again.  It's nice to be back riding the Rawhide wave once
again...

jon