"! Booting..." message in GDM login screen?

[Tim]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 15:46 -0500, Michael Wiktowy wrote:

> I just installed FC4 on one of my boxes and recently I have been
> seeing weird little "! Booting..." message between the Fedora Core
> name and where you enter your username. The "!" part of the message
> has a some sort of circular "throbber" rotating over top of it. 
> 
> I only see this occasionally and have not seen it before a month or so
> ago. Nothing looks weird in the logs and things seem to run fine. Does
> anyone know what this is and what it is trying to tell me?

I've seen that occasionally, too, but don't really know why.  It usually
happened, for me, after I'd been remotely accessing my server (I found
it waiting for me on the server, later on).  I haven't seen it for a
while, and I've probably updated quite a few things since then.  It
might have been fixed.

Recently, I've occasionally found that I have to log in twice.  The GDM
login screen comes back at me, straight away, as if my X session had
crashed immediately, but without protest.  I wonder if they're related
(something not properly initiallising for a new X session or GDM login
screen).

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