gdm not finding Default.xml
Matthias Clasen
mclasen at redhat.com
Thu Apr 21 15:44:53 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 07:24 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 16:05 +0200, Simon Hjorth Bøggild wrote:
> > Caerie Houchins wrote:
> >
> > > After today's yum update following my reboot I was greeted with an
> > > blue background and an error message stating that the file at
> > > /usr/share/gdm/themes/Default/Default.xml could not be opened.
> > > Clicking ok here brought me to the gdm login screen with the large
> > > flower in the lower right corner. The username box had three periods
> > > in it, and I was unable to type anything in that box.
> > >
> > > I checked in the /usr/share/gdm/themes directory and sure enough there
> > > was no Default/ . As a temporary fix I went ahead and made a
> > > symbolic link from Bluecurve/ to Default/, then linked Bluecurve.xml
> > > to Default.xml. init 5'ing again and sure enough everything came up
> > > just like normal.
> > >
> > > Anyone else experience this after today's updates?
> > >
> > > Caerie
> > >
> > Yup, I had the exact same experience, the Default/ is not there
> > I booted with init 3, logged on and then started X. Instead of making
> > the symbolic link I started up gdmsetup and went to the Graphical
> > greeter pane, where I selected Bluecurve. After a reboot everything
> > works fine again
> >
> > Regards Simon
> >
> Is this in bugzilla yet?
>
We will fix this in the next gdm revision later today.
Matthias
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