New SoaS build soas68

Mikus Grinbergs mikus at bga.com
Tue Sep 29 12:01:41 UTC 2009


> gpm autologin was broken in rawhide; it's now fixed.  If you do
> something like:
>  yum -y install gpm --nogpgcheck
> ..it should fix it.

Using yum to (re)install gdm did get beyond the earlier stall -- 
though I had to first press <esc> to "awaken" the login window, and 
follow that by clicking on "soas user" to actually launch the login.

This shows the vulnerability of the login process to a "single point 
of failure".  When 'gdm autologin' broke, the user was *not* being 
offered any opportunity to bring up the gui any other way (once the 
gdm had stalled, even startx from a text console did not work).

mikus




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