gdm hangs in runlevel 5

[Jim Cornette]

shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> hi,
> 
> gdm hangs forever while booting into runlevel 5,
> black background and the mousepointer with the nice blue circle,
> selinux is in permissive mode.
> 
> init 3 ; startx  is ok ?
> 
> is this a known  gdm  problem ?
> 
> # rpm -qa \*gdm\*
> fedorainfinity-gdm-theme-8.0.1-1.fc8
> gdm-2.21.2-0.2007.11.19.2.fc9
> 

gdm-2.21.2-0.2007.11.14.1.fc9 would exit and try to respawn. I have not 
tried gdm-2.21.2-0.2007.11.19.2.fc9 yet.
My problem I thought was due to synaptics problems. I do have a hang 
with UDEV using kernel versions tagged with fc9 and am using 
kernel-2.6.23.1-49.fc8 which does not hang at UDEV.

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