FC5 - "The Greeter application seems to be crashing"

[Mauricio Vergara Ereche]

El Miércoles, 19 de Abril de 2006 18:28, Bob St John escribió:
[...]
> > > Suddenly on boot I'm getting "The Greeter application seems to be
> > > crashing. Attempting to use a different one." A different Greeter
> > > comes up, I can log in, and all seems to work fine once I'm logged
> > > in.
[...]
> # which gdm
> /usr/sbin/gdm
> # which kdm
> /usr/bin/which: no kdm in
> (/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/java
>/jre1.5.0_06/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/
>bin:/root/bin)

It seems that the prefered greeter is kdm, which you doesn't have.

Try changing this in /etc/X11/prefdm
where it says (around line 14)
preferred=
add this
preferred=GNOME

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