severin login failure after updating today

[Elton Woo]

Braden McDaniel wrote:

>Quoting Gerry Tool <gstool at earthlink.net>:
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>>I updated to all packages in today's update.
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>>Now, when severn starts, instead of getting GDM, I get a message"
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>>"The greeter program appears to be crashing.  I will attempt to use a
>>different one."
>>
>>I get a different login screen that says "Welcome" and log in.
>>
>>Then I get a message:
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>>"Cannont find or run the base session script, will try Gnome failsafe
>>session for you."
>>
>>Then I get a message:
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>>"This is the Failsafe Gnome session.  You will be logged into the
>>"Default" session of Gnome with no startup scripts run.  This is only to
>>fix problems in your installation."
>>
>>It then logs me into my normal Gnome desktop, but I have no clue how to
>>fix the problem.
>>
>>Does anyone else?
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>I'm seeing exactly the same thing.
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I can concur that it's happened here too. Just rebooted, reconfigured 
the nVidia
driver support, and logged in with the newer kernel.

Elton ;-)

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