After I convinced my wife to use Linux and three days of satisfied use of fc7, today it seems the gdm greeter refuses to start... ;-( I'm not at the PC but I connected remotely. She says that at the screen she gets "the greeter refused to start, retry...". If she presses ok the same happens. Already tried to restart but the same... In messages I have: Jul 3 14:40:34 localhost gdmgreeter[3129]: The accessibility registry was not found. Jul 3 14:40:38 localhost gdm[3025]: failsafe dialog failed (inhibitions: 0 0) Jul 3 14:40:38 localhost gdm[3025]: failsafe dialog failed (inhibitions: 0 1) Jul 3 14:40:57 localhost gdmgreeter[3180]: The accessibility registry was not found. Jul 3 14:41:02 localhost gdm[3025]: failsafe dialog failed (inhibitions: 0 0) Jul 3 14:41:02 localhost gdm[3025]: failsafe dialog failed (inhibitions: 0 1) Strange is that [root@localhost log]# ps -ef|grep -E "X|gdm" | grep -v grep gives: root 1733 1 0 14:39 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /XP -o rw,nls=utf8 root 3025 1 0 14:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon root 3107 1 0 14:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon root 3185 3025 0 14:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon root 3187 3185 0 14:40 tty7 00:00:01 /usr/bin/Xorg :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7 gdm 3205 3185 0 14:41 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon gdm 3208 3025 0 14:41 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon yesterday I used without problems the system that is an x86_64 updated fc7. I updated several not apparently related packages: In yum.log I have: Jul 02 23:31:52 Updated: xvidcore.x86_64 1.1.3-1.lvn7 Jul 02 23:31:53 Updated: livna-config-display.noarch 0.0.14a-1.lvn7 Jul 02 23:31:53 Updated: k3b-extras-nonfree.x86_64 1.0.2-1.lvn7 then I manually installed these: Jul 03 00:54:33 Installed: xmlrpc-c.x86_64 1.06.11-2.fc7 Jul 03 00:54:36 Installed: cmake.x86_64 2.4.6-3.fc7 Strange to say, yesterday I was proposed to upgrade gnome-menus to 2.19.4 but I deselected it It seems strange as this should be a devel package not in mainstream fc7, or not? After the problem today I tried to upgrade it Jul 03 14:37:49 Updated: gnome-menus.x86_64 2.19.4-1.fc7 But nothing changes... In its changelog I can misteriously see: * Sun Jun 17 2007 Colin Walters <<a href="mailto:walters@redhat.com">walters@redhat.com </a>> - 2.19.4-1 - Update to 2.19.4 * Tue May 29 2007 Matthias Clasen <<a href="mailto:mclasen@redhat.com">mclasen@redhat.com</a>> - 2.18.2-1 - Update to 2.18.2 ??? In /var/log/gdm I have: [root@localhost gdm]# ls -lrt total 32 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 793 2007-04-27 22:59 : 20.log.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 791 2007-05-16 22:05 :20.log.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 888 2007-06-14 18:47 :20.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 792 2007-07-03 14:19 :0.log.4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 792 2007-07-03 14:40 : 0.log.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 879 2007-07-03 14:40 :0.log.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 792 2007-07-03 14:40 :0.log.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 792 2007-07-03 14:40 :0.log In :0.log X Window System Version 1.3.0 Release Date: 19 April 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3 Build Operating System: Fedora Core 7 Red Hat, Inc. Current Operating System: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 #1 SMP Tue Jun 12 14:56:37 ED T 2007 x86_64 Build Date: 11 June 2007 Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.3.0.0-9.fc7 Before reporting problems, check <a href="http://wiki.x.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://wiki.x.org</a> to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Jul 3 14:40:59 2007 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (II) Module already built-in In :0.log.2 I have this line more: AUDIT: Tue Jul 3 14:40:51 2007: 3136 Xorg: client 2 rejected from local host (uid 42) Anyone experiencing this? If I set KDE as desktop manager in /etc/sysconfig/desktop file, I get the kdm login screen, but trying to connect I get again the login screen and in messages: Jul 3 15:19:45 localhost kdm_greet[5331]: Internal error: memory corruption detected Jul 3 15:19:45 localhost kdm: :0[5355]: Can't execute "/usr/share/config/kdm/Xstartup<div id="mb_2">": No such file or directory Jul 3 15:19:45 localhost kdm: :0[5448]: Can't execute "/usr/share/config/kdm/Xreset": No such file or directory Jul 3 15:19:59 localhost kdm_greet[5453]: Internal error: memory corruption detected Jul 3 15:19:59 localhost kdm: :0[5466]: Can't execute "/usr/share/config/kdm/Xstartup": No such file or directory Jul 3 15:19:59 localhost kdm: :0[5559]: Can't execute "/usr/share/config/kdm/Xreset": No such file or directory Strange that under /usr/share/config/kdm/ there are only Xreset.rpmnew and Xstartup.rpmnew ....</div>I renamed them as Xreset and Xstartup but nothing changes If I set XDM in /etc/sysconfig/desktop I get the xdm login and I'm able to log in with a primitive X session.... ;-) Also, doing a startx from init3 I get correctly a root X Windows session.... rpm -vV gdm gives no errors.... Can anyone point to a solution? Thanks in advance, Gianluca