Hi Jeff,
Thank you for the note. In the future I'll attempt what you wrote; to remove a package rather than reinstall. I needed to find a solution and get the systems to the users so I simply used the kdm. I discovered with kdm that the main display uses #2 (ctrl-alt-F2) and the other consoles become inaccessible to the local system display. These text consoles are instead available to the iKVM of the bmc controller. Yet in the iKVM the main display is not viewable (I think because it uses the PCIe vga slot.). Thus after opening the iKVM I need to use the soft keyboard, type ctrl-alt-F3 and will then see the text console and can use the keyboard. The affects the main display directly which is alos switched but inaccessible to the desktop display. The usability is not ideal but it partially works. Maybe this is the only option. I had the expectation that the main display and consoles could be available in both iKVM and desktop display but this may not be possible since there are two gpus involved. I'm interested to understand this functionality in more detail if anyone can explain. Please forward to a developer if you know who may understand.
Since I did not find any clear documentation on gdm and do not have any more time to troubleshoot further my only hope is that Supermicro, ASPEED and gdm or fedora developers could find a solution.
Thanks again, Kevin
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Dependencies Resolved
==================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size ==================================================================================================== Removing: gdm x86_64 1:3.10.0.1-1.fc20 installed 4.0 M Removing for dependencies: gdm-libs x86_64 1:3.10.0.1-1.fc20 installed 36 k gnome-initial-setup x86_64 3.10.1.1-4.fc20 installed 1.8 M gnome-shell x86_64 3.10.4-9.fc20 @fedora20-x86_64-updates 5.8 M gnome-shell-extension-common noarch 3.10.1-1.fc20 installed 371 k gnome-shell-extension-user-theme noarch 3.10.1-1.fc20 installed 7.0 k gnome-tweak-tool noarch 3.10.1-2.fc20 installed 694 k pulseaudio-gdm-hooks x86_64 5.0-25.fc20 @fedora20-x86_64-updates 354
Transaction Summary ==================================================================================================== Remove 1 Package (+7 Dependent packages)
On 03/23/2015 04:32 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/23/2015 11:52 AM, Kevin Abbey wrote:
I tried to reinstall gdm, yum reinstall gdm, but this did not make an difference.
My understanding is that what you did only replaces missing or damaged files, and isn't as thorough as you might think it is. (I'm sure somebody will correct me if I'm wrong.) If I'm right, you may want to remove gdm completely, and then install it again. When you remove it, don't use -y because you want to know what else, if anything, goes with it.