lost most gdm features/functions after today's update...

[Tom London]

On 7/7/06, Rahul <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Tom London wrote:
> > On 7/7/06, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 07:40 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> >> > On Friday 07 July 2006 01:34, Clifford Snow wrote:
> >> > > Localhost kernel: audit(1152216505.513:285): avc: denied {execmem
> >> } for
> >> > > pid=2408 com="metacity" scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0
> >> > > tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=process
> >> > >
> >> > > Is this an error of metacity or a problem with selinux?
> >> >
> >> > This would appear to be a problem with metacity (or one of the
> >> libraries it
> >> > links with). Programs that are securely written do not need execmem.
> >> The
> >> > question is why did this pop up yesterday? Looking through the rawhide
> >> > reports, I don't see metacity being updated this week. I suspect its
> >> caused
> >> > by a library that links with metacity.
> >>
> >> It's libGL (as becomes obvious when you go to launch metacity from a
> >> terminal :-)
> >>
> >> This was being looked at yesterday afternoon by some of the X guys
> >>
> >> Jeremy
> >>
> > Intersting, but this still fails for me if I boot with 'enforcing=0'
> > and/or I set 'allow_execmem=1'.
> >
> > tom
> >
> > [I'm running on an Thinkpad X41, with Intel 915GM/GMS/910GML Express
> > graphics card.]
>
> Exactly how does it fail?
>
> Rahul
>
After entering login credentials, 'base blue' background screen comes
up, splash screen comes up, but 'dies' quickly (after 'panel' and
'terminal') so  I don't get 'metacity' and other widgets displayed.

I get top and bottom panel displayed, and my 2 terminal windows
appear, but they are missing the window manager 'frame'. If I bring up
another application, say by clicking on the browser icon in the top
panel, it comes up in the upper left position and its 'menu bar'
overwrites the panel.  I cannot move or or minimize the app (except,
say, via 'File->Quit').

I've installed Xfce, and it works like a champ......

tom

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Tom London