gdm login busted

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 16:43 -0400, Jim Duda wrote:
> I recently upgraded from fc7 to fc8, about a week ago.
> 
> Today, my gdm login is busted.  After I enter my user name and password, 
> gdm just hangs, and never starts up the desktop.
> 
> I have to boot the computer into init 3, login to a shell, then run startx.
> 
> I do know what I could have done to break this.
> 
> I no longer have a "login screen" configuration entry in 
> system->administration, if that means anything to anyone.
> 
> I uninstalled and reinstalled gdm, no luck.
> 
> Same issue with any login, including root.
> 
> Any ideas?

Are you sure you're starting the right desktop (Gnome, KDE, ...)? gdm
and kdm can both start any of the desktop environments and your default
may be incorrectly set.

poc