gdm and gnome-applets broken?

[Mike Chambers]

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 10:12 +0200, Émeric Maschino wrote:

> With today's updates, gdm can't start and I'm getting a text dialog box
> telling me that the X server has been disabled for 5 minutes. No error
> message in Xorg.0.log though. Switching to runlevel 3, I can start a
> GNOME session from the CLI by invoking startx. This suggested me that
> the problem may be due to the updated gdm-2.15.3-5 package. I didn't
> find the previous one (gdm-2.15.3-3 that was working correctly for me)
> on the different fedora mirrors, so I reinstalled the one shipped with
> FC5 and runlevel 5 is working correctly again.

Server issued that resides in the .conf file.  The email already sent by
someone explains what to do if you want the workaround fix before the
fixed rpm.

OTOH, gdmsetup starts but freezes right after and has done this for a
while now.

> Moreover, when the GNOME desktop is loaded, I'm getting a dialog box
> telling me that there's something wrong with the mixer applet and I'm
> asked whether I want to remove this applet from the desk or not. These
> issues are on an Itanium box. No idea if other architectures are
> affected too.

Have ran into this as well, and this is on a x86 box.

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Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

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