GDM issues....

[D@7@k|N&]

Ben, thanks for the rapid response!  What a nice welcome to the Fedora
mailing lists!!!  :D

Anyhow, it appears that pango was the culprit.  I didn't remember seeing
gdm as an updated package in the most recent update I did (which was
probably 2 or 3 days ago), but I DID remember seeing pango.  Anyhow, I
checked the version of my existing gdm package, and it was 2.4.4.5-1.
SO I figured I would install the newer version to see if it would solve
the problem.  Nope!  But what I got was a statement that said that it
required pango libraries which it couldn't find.  So putting 2 + 2
together, I figured pango was the problem, reinstalled the RPM from the
CD, like Ben suggested for gdm, reboot, and voila!  Everything was back
to normal.  So, now I am updating again (possibly stupidly) and will
post the results.

Thanks again, Ben, for the quick reply and the troubleshooting
direction!

-Charlie

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Ben Stringer
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 6:59 PM
To: Fedora List
Subject: Re: GDM issues....

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 13:33, D at 7@k|N& wrote:
> I'm not sure if this has come up yet or not.  I just joined the
> mailing list, so I am not privy to its history.  At any rate, I
> recently ran Up2date, and updated some packages, and after rebooting,
> gdm is all hosed.  Hosed meaning that there is no text, and it won't
> accept input for a login.  So my questions are these:  1) where can I
> look to see what packages were recently installed?  2)  Is there a way
> to back out those packages without reloading the whole system?  3) Has
> anyone seen this before?
> 

Hi Charlie,

A GDM update was released yesterday(ish) with details in the release
notes that may explain the problem you are seeing. The announcement is
here:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2004-February/msg000
10.html

If this does not resolve the problem, you should be able backout the gdm
update by re-installing the gdm rpm on your Fedora media. You need to
tell rpm that it is okay to install and older version of gdm. Have a
look at "man rpm" for the full picture.

Cheers, Ben



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