gdm greeter crashing

[Yonas Abraham]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 09:44 -0800, Josh Coffman wrote:
> 
> 
> --- Yonas Abraham <yonas at erimp3.com> wrote:
> 
> > after i input my user name and hit enter, instead of
> > getting a password
> > prompt I get "The greeter program appears to be
> > crashing. I will attempt
> > to use a different one"
> > 
> > I even created new user, but it is independent of a
> > specific user,
> > actually even if i hit enter without writing a user
> > name it still
> > crashes. 
> > 
> > I am using FC4 uptodated
> > 
> > any idea on where to look, i have looked on
> > /var/log/messages
> > 
> 
> I had a problem with gdm after I updated to gnome
> 2.12. I just removed and installed gdm and it was
> fixed. 
> probably not the same problem, but it might help.
> (root)> yum -y remove gdm
> (root)> yum -y install gdm

it did not help. I uninstall it and install it but the graphical greater
still crashes.

/yonas