GDM

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 08:50 -0500, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> 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.

Did you happen to keep those files so someone can have a look why they
were causing problems?

Might be nice if someone else has the same problem if they could keep
these files (move them, instead of remove them).


r.
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