severin login failure after updating today

Braden McDaniel braden at endoframe.com
Fri Oct 3 17:50:35 UTC 2003


Quoting Gerry Tool <gstool at earthlink.net>:

> I updated to all packages in today's update.
> 
> Now, when severn starts, instead of getting GDM, I get a message"
> 
> "The greeter program appears to be crashing.  I will attempt to use a
> different one."
> 
> I get a different login screen that says "Welcome" and log in.
> 
> Then I get a message:
> 
> "Cannont find or run the base session script, will try Gnome failsafe
> session for you."
> 
> Then I get a message:
> 
> "This is the Failsafe Gnome session.  You will be logged into the
> "Default" session of Gnome with no startup scripts run.  This is only to
> fix problems in your installation."
> 
> It then logs me into my normal Gnome desktop, but I have no clue how to
> fix the problem.
> 
> Does anyone else?

I'm seeing exactly the same thing.

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