Current Rawhide just a bit too raw

[Antonio M]

2008/1/22, Jonathan Kamens <jik at kamens.brookline.ma.us>:
>
>  Yowza.
>
>  Upgraded my desktop to Rawhide packages this morning and rebooted, and boy,
> it was not a positive experience.  Too many issues all possibly tied
> together to just stick them in bugzilla, so here goes...
>
>  I know Rawhide is in constant development and not expected to be stable.
> Still, perhaps at least some of the problems I encountered today are not yet
> known and worth reporting, so I'm sending them here in the hopes that the
> relevant developers will know what to do about them or will be able to offer
> me more advice about how to collect enough information to file a useful bug
> report.
>
>  First time I tried to log in after the upgrade, login hung with a blank
> screen (well, not blank exactly, it had the same background that the login
> screen has).  Ended up killing and restarting dbus-daemon, killing
> gdm-binary and logging in again, and it worked the second time.  I was
> unable to reproduce this issue after upgrading again from Rawhide this
> evening and rebooting again.
>
>
>
>  Hate the new GDM login window and would like to put it back to a simple
> username prompt, but can't find any documentation anywhere of how to
> configure the new GDM (I assume there's a way to get that kind of login
> window, but who knows, perhaps I'm wrong about that as well).
> /usr/share/doc/gdm-2.21.5/README makes reference to an INSTALL file which
> isn't included in the RPM.
>
>

when I install GDM from fc9 I get  an Init X respawn, so I went back
to fc8 and I am happy about it .....
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Antonio Montagnani
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