yum update ==> paperweight

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Sun Sep 14 16:39:11 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 16:40 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Tom Horsley <tom.horsley <at> att.net> writes:
> >> OK, runlevel 3 works, and I see log messages from gdm-something-or-other
> >> reporting the failure to authenticate, so I guess I should report this
> >> against gdm.
> > 
> > su -
> > yum install kdebase-workspace
> > echo 'DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"' >/etc/sysconfig/desktop
> > telinit 5
> > 
> > and enjoy a display manager which actually works. :-) (And yes, you really have 
> > to write "KDE" in /etc/sysconfig/desktop, not "KDM".)
> 
> I find this advice unhelpful. If something is broken, regardless of the 
> desktop environment, we want bug reports filed. Tom Horsley, just file a 
> bug report against GDM.

This has been fixed already. I don't know how we are doing wrt to
rawhide composes during the freeze, but a fixed gdm has been in koji for
more than a day now.




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