gui not booting - rawhide.

[Tom London]

On 10/26/06, Mick Mearns <off_by_1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi;
>  I upgraded from test to FC6 via DVD.
> Worked fine.
> Then I changed the devel repo to:
> http://fedoraproject.org/mirrors/fedora-core-rawhide
>
> and did a 'yum upgrade', also worked fine.
> Now when I boot up it hangs with:
>
> STOP SIGN
> "The greeter application appears to be crashing.
> Attempting to use a different one."
> OK box
>
> after a bunch of retries:
>
> "The dsplay server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90
> seconds.
> It is likely that something bad is going on.
> Waiting for 2 minutes before trying again on display :0."
>
> My video card is a radeon 5200se.
>
> xorg.conf:
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "nv"
>         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>         BoardName   "nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
> EndSection
>
> thanks
>   Mick
>
A bug in gdm-2.17.0-1.fc7.

Upgrade to gdm-2.17.0-2.fc7 should fix it.

tom
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Tom London