FC5 - "The Greeter application seems to be crashing"

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 4/19/06, Bob St John <bob at stjohn.name> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I did a complete FC5 new install several weeks ago on an AMD64-based
> box. I even created my first dual-boot environment. Install went
> flawlessly and system has been working fine until . . .
>
> Suddenly on boot I'm getting "The Greeter application seems to be
> crashing. Attempting to use a different one." A different Greeter comes
> up, I can log in, and all seems to work fine once I'm logged in.
>
> Any idea why the Greeter may be crashing? The FC5 system is up to date
> (via Yum.)
>
> Bob St. John
>

Please tell us what Desktop Environment you use (Gnome, KDE, other)
and please post the output of the following as root :

# which kdm

and

# which gdm



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