f9-alpha logins dead

[Will Woods]

On Feb 28, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Will Woods wrote:

>
> On Feb 28, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Andrew Farris wrote:
>
>> David G. Mackay wrote:
>>> I just updated an f9-alpha installation, and now I can't log in to  
>>> X.  I
>>> see a message from gdm-simple-slave saying that it's "unable to
>>> determine session to activate" and then it restarts the login  
>>> process.
>>>> From the user standpoint, I give it a username and password, the  
>>>> screen
>>> goes blank for a while, then I go back to the gdm login screen.
>>
>> Similar to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435104  
>> although could be two separate issues.  In my comments there I had  
>> something like what Matej originally reports, but also something  
>> like what you've got here, so I may have two problem sources.
>
> No, those are the same *symptom*, but probably different problems.
>
> On my rawhide boxes, when gnome-session starts it gets an X Window  
> System error:
> The program 'gnome-session' received an X Window System error. This  
> probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadWindow  
> (invalid Window parameter)'.
> (Details: serial 22 error_code 3 request_code 2 minor_code 0)
>
> (that's from my .xsession-errors file)
>
> Doesn't have anything to do with pressing a key. I'll file (or find)  
> about this shortly.

By the way - booting into runlevel 3 and running 'startx' works fine.  
Still trying to figure out the cause of this one..

-w