Can't login via GDM anyomre: Re: Fedora 16 updates-testing report

[Andy Lawrence]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:58 PM, David Sieg <dsmafml at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am Sonntag, den 25.09.2011, 19:27 +0300 schrieb cornel panceac:
> > 2011/9/25 Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
> >
> > > On 09/24/2011 01:28 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 14:05 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > >> On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 09:12 -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> > > >>> Beware the gigantic gnome 3.1.92 update.  Something in this
> > > >>> transaction broke the ability for me to log in at all via GDM.  You
> > > >>> type your password, and hit enter, nothing happens.  Click Sign In
> > > >>> button, nothing happens.
> > >
> > > it's even better on my machine: once the gdm attempts to start, the
> display
> > turns off and i can't switch to text console or connect through ssh.
> Same here. Only way to log in: boot into runlevel 3 and start X (and
> GDM).
>
> -
>

Do this:

yum downgrade gdm

Worked for me.



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