GDM

[Thomas J. Baker]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 16:36 -0500, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/13/06, Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.com> wrote:
>         ----- Original Message -----
>         From: "Thomas J. Baker" <tjb at unh.edu>
>         To: "Development discussions related to Fedora Core"
>         <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
>         Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 3:13 PM
>         Subject: Re: GDM
>         
>         
>         > > It doesn't appear my problems are related to gdm. Even at
>         runlevel 3,
>         > startx bombs out too. The biggest suck is that there don't
>         seem to be 
>         > any error messages anywhere...
>         
>         I am experiencing the same problem as you are, even in run
>         level 3.  If you
>         try to run gdmsetup, I get an Gtk-Warning error.  I hope that
>         whoever fixes
>         this
>         one, would hopefully post a working copy of the rpm somewhere 
>         (people.redhat.com server would work) until it hits rawhide.
>         
>         Thanks,
>         
>         Mike Chambers
>         Madisonville, KY
>         
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> 
> 
> This problem appears to be two fold.  I fixed /etc/gdm/custom.conf,
> but still could not log in to an X session.  I had to move my .fonts
> directory to .fonts-bak and then gnome-session stopped crashing.  I
> haven't had time to debug it, or file a bug yet.  Maybe later
> tonight. 
> 
> Jon
> 

I still had the same problem after todays update. I removed the
fonts.cache\* files in my .fonts directory and now everything works
again.


tjb
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