f9-alpha logins dead

[Will Woods]

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.

-w