[FEDORA] Re: severin login failure after updating today

Daniel Wittenberg daniel-wittenberg at starken.com
Sat Oct 4 02:40:45 UTC 2003


So far the only workaround that I know of (what I'm doing) is init to
runlevel 3, then startx from there.  I get the annoying error messages
that pop up behind the fedora splash, along with my ssh-add, but at
least it works.

Dan

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 21:26, Elton Woo wrote:
> On October 3, 2003 01:27 pm, Gerry Tool <Gerry Tool <gstool at earthlink.net>> 
> wrote:
> > "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:
> >
> > "Cannont find or run the base session script, will try Gnome failsafe
> > session for you."
> >
> > Then I get a message:
> >
> > "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."
> 
> ... any workarounds or fixes for this yet? The problem is consistent
> wether KDE or Gnome session is chosen, and since it's Failsafe, I
> cannot print ...
> 
> Elton.
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