problems with gdm, can't go to any desktop

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Mar 31 17:15:15 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 15:05 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear fellow testers,
> 
> I have a little problem, I think the culprit is gdm.  I start my computer and I try to login to a user and it gives me the login screen again.  I do it again and the same thing happens.  I then restart my machine in level 3 and login as myself and type startx and my X session begins.  
> 
> Video Card is an ATI radeon, hopefully will be ready for that TEST DAY?
> 
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE]
> 
> [root at riohigh ~]# rpm -qa gdm*
> gdm-2.26.0-7.fc11.i586
> 
> This happens on only one machine, the other one logins fine automagically :), and it has INTEL chipset(Toshiba Laptop)  

Take a look at the file ~/.xsession-errors - it may have some useful
messages in it.
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