GDM

[Thomas J. Baker]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 14:47 -0500, Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi,
> > Is it just my box or did others see breakage of GDM with the latest
> > jumbo update? For whatever reason, it wants to start a "Failsafe GNOME
> > session" now (it claims that it cannot find or run the base session
> > script). I'm also getting gdmsetup do "double free or corruption"...
> This should be fixed in tomorrow's rawhide.  In the mean time,
> 
> sed -i -e 's@/etc/X11/gdm@/etc/gdm at g' /etc/gdm/custom.conf
> 
> should fix things up
> 
> --Ray
> 

I'm running gdm-2.13.0.7.0.2006.02.12-1 and the /etc/gdm/custom.conf is
essentially empty (blank sections for daemon, security, etc.). I can't
log in at all as a normal user although root can. Your sed substitution
fails to match anything.

Any ideas?

tjb
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