GDM: (F17, all updates) When I try to log in, login fails and I get switched to a different VT

[Kamil Paral]

> > It seems Xserver is crashing. After the crash have a look at
> > /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old and `dmesg` output.
> 
> The X server is NOT crashing.

> As I said, "I can't find anything in /var/log/messages, dmesg output,
> ~/.xsession-errors, or /var/log/Xorg.0.log to explain this."

I was mentioning /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old , which is a different file.

But you might be right, it doesn't have to be crashing.