gdm login screen fails to load
Craig White
craig at tobyhouse.com
Wed Oct 3 16:32:37 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 09:44 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:18:08 +0200
> fedora <fedora at ayni.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Frank
> > did you ever check the gdm config files:
> > /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf
> > /etc/gdm/custom.conf
> >
> > the second has priority over the first.
> >
> > could it be a chooser/greeter issue?
> > the chooser being a display/screen, where you can select a remote host
> > for login via XDCMP
> > the greeter being the normal login screen.
> >
> > on the greeter display (the login screen) you can open the options and
> > then select the chooser display. IF YOU DO THAT, YOU WILL NEVER SEE A
> > GREETER DISPLAY ANY MORE, unless you change the /etc/gdm/custom.conf
> > manually. if, inadvertantly, you may have selected the chooser, then the
> > issue is similar to your mistery.
>
> Thanks a lot for your ideas.
>
> I checked the timestamp on /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf and it is dated August
> 7, which is well before I set this machine up.
>
> Other than comments, this is all there is in /etc/gdm/custom.conf:
>
> [daemon]
> RemoteGreeter=/usr/libexec/gdmgreeter
> [security]
> [xdmcp]
> Enable=true
> [gui]
> [greeter]
> SystemMenu=false
> GraphicalTheme=Thumbsupdog
> [chooser]
> [debug]
>
> I had considered the idea that my custom theme might be screwing things up but
> I set it back to use the Centos default theme and the problem didn't go away.
>
> Any further thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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As I suggested on the duplicate thread on the CentOS mail list - have you re-run ltspadmin and had it make modifications to xdmcp and rebooted?
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Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>
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