Strange Gnome Behavior After Rawhide 20080906 update

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

Sven Lankes wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 06:57:48PM -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> 
>> Here after thursday's (or so) updates I get a blank (no text, most icons
>> gone) GDM, loging in blindly (this is the only account here) worked. After
>> today's update not even that works, ctrl-alt-BS does nothing, ctrl-alt-DEL
>> is broken too. Going through runlevel 3 and to X gives me a background and
>> upper/lower blank icon bars. Only the power switch gets me out.
> 
> Sounds like 
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461149
> 
> (that is - if you're using intel graphics).
> 
> For me reverting to xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.4.2-1 fixed the issue.
> 

No.  ATI driver.  However, after one invocation of gnome/openbox, 
regular gnome came back ok subsequently.

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