gdm not finding Default.xml
Sean Bruno
sean.bruno at dsl-only.net
Tue Apr 26 14:24:42 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 16:05 +0200, Simon Hjorth Bøggild wrote:
> Caerie Houchins wrote:
>
> > After today's yum update following my reboot I was greeted with an
> > blue background and an error message stating that the file at
> > /usr/share/gdm/themes/Default/Default.xml could not be opened.
> > Clicking ok here brought me to the gdm login screen with the large
> > flower in the lower right corner. The username box had three periods
> > in it, and I was unable to type anything in that box.
> >
> > I checked in the /usr/share/gdm/themes directory and sure enough there
> > was no Default/ . As a temporary fix I went ahead and made a
> > symbolic link from Bluecurve/ to Default/, then linked Bluecurve.xml
> > to Default.xml. init 5'ing again and sure enough everything came up
> > just like normal.
> >
> > Anyone else experience this after today's updates?
> >
> > Caerie
> >
> Yup, I had the exact same experience, the Default/ is not there
> I booted with init 3, logged on and then started X. Instead of making
> the symbolic link I started up gdmsetup and went to the Graphical
> greeter pane, where I selected Bluecurve. After a reboot everything
> works fine again
>
> Regards Simon
>
Is this in bugzilla yet?
Sean
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