Fedora Core 5 Test Update: gdm-2.14.4-1.fc5.2

Jim Bevier jim at jbsys.com
Wed Jun 7 18:18:54 UTC 2006


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Chiodini" <robert.chiodini-1 at ksc.nasa.gov>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" 
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Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: Fedora Core 5 Test Update: gdm-2.14.4-1.fc5.2


> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 10:51 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:10:40PM -0400, Benjy Grogan wrote:
>> >
>> > To fix the problem I had to first 'chmod +w
>> > /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf' as root and then replace all instances
>> > of '/usr/X11R6/bin' to '/usr/bin' in defaults.conf.
>>
>> That is precisely what I suggested NOT to do.  Instead of changing
>> /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf you can override settings in
>> /etc/gdm/custom.conf.  Both to fix some mistakes and to make your
>> own changes.  This is exactly why you have the later file.
>> 'defaults.conf' will get clobbered on the next update.
>>
>> > I guess the latest GDM rpm is borked then?
>>
>> Indeed.  In no uncertain terms.
>>
>>    Michal
>>
>
> At least the changes to /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf will revert back to
> default (hopefully correct) on the next update,
> whereas /etc/gdm/custom.conf will not (I assume).
>
> Therefore, change /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf for the workaround
> and /etc/gdm/custom.conf for customization.
>
> Bob...

You can also do a workaround by doing a 'ln -s ../../bin/X X' in the 
/usr/X11R6/bin directory.

Jim

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