f16 preupdate from f14, xfce logout error

jackson byers byersjab at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 18:35:16 UTC 2012


>>I am still stuck on the reboot forcing me to go to console and "startxfce4".
>>The boot process looks really barren, with a single blue-white bar
>>with "fedora 16" in blue at far right,
>>at the bottom of a black screen.

Joe Zeff responded:
>I had the same issue after upgrading.  It turned out that there was a problem with a database> >GDM uses.  Using yum to reinstall it worked.


[byers at f16a9 ~]$  yum list installed |grep -i gdm
lists nothing

[byers at f16a9 ~]$  yum list available |grep -i gdm
gdm.i686                                     1:3.2.1.1-10.fc16           updates
gdm-devel.i686                               1:3.2.1.1-10.fc16           updates
gdm-libs.i686                                1:3.2.1.1-10.fc16           updates
gdmap.i686                                   0.8.1-8.fc15                fedora
lcgdm.i686                                   1.8.1.2-1.fc16              fedora
lcgdm-dav.i686                               0.8.0-1.fc16                updates
lcgdm-dav-devel.i686                         0.8.0-1.fc16                updates
lcgdm-dav-libs.i686                          0.8.0-1.fc16                updates
lcgdm-dav-server.i686                        0.8.0-1.fc16                updates
lcgdm-devel.i686                             1.8.3.1-2.fc16              updates
lcgdm-libs.i686                              1.8.3.1-2.fc16              updates
nagios-lcgdm.i686                            0.9.1-1.fc16                updates
nagios-plugins-lcgdm.i686                    0.9.1-1.fc16                updates
nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common.i686             0.9.1-1.fc16                updates
pulseaudio-gdm-hooks.i686                    0.9.23-1.fc16               fedora
root-gdml.i686                               5.30.06-3.fc16              updates
[byers at f16a9 ~]$


so I do
# yum install gdm
?

or
# yum groupinstall gdm
?

Jack


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