gdm not finding Default.xml

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 07:24 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> 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?
> 

We will fix this in the next gdm revision later today.

Matthias