GDM is not coming up.

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:18:56PM -0400, Peter A. Banks wrote:
> I have update to all the newest rpms that were in the rawhide this
> morning Kernel 515 etc. In addition to the Mozilla, firefox,
> epiphany problem everyone is getting. GDM does not come up hour
> glass just keeps turning.

Does not happen on my boxes after these updates.

Try to check that if you do not have have some strange "leftovers"
in /tmp although gdm runs as root so permission problems are not
likely.

Also you can strace that.  /usr/bin/gdm is a script which runs
gdm-binary.  Substitute your version where instead of

exec /usr/bin/gdm-binary "$@"

you have

strace -f -o /tmp/gdm.trace.$$ /usr/bin/gdm-binary "$@"

or something like that, make your machine to run this, 'telinit 3'
after short while and see what is holding it up.

> Epiphany also had problems with missing libhowl files.

Exclude 'howl*' updates for a time beeing.

   Michal