Bug 106376

Summary: gdm fails to start the default GNOME session
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: Ralf Ertzinger <redhat-bugzilla>
Component: gdmAssignee: Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Ralf Ertzinger 2003-10-06 16:01:08 UTC
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Description of problem:
(Note: my default session is GNOME)

After selecting the default session (or GNOME session) in gdm, gdm displays a
message stating:

"Could not find or run the base session script, will try the GNOME failsafe
session for you."

It then successfully starts the GNOME failsafe session.
/var/log/messages shows:

gdm[4418]: gdm_slave_session_start: Cannot find or run the base Xsession script,
will try GNOME failsafe

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.4.4.3-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select GNOME session in gdm
2. Log in
3.
    

Actual Results:  An error message shows, and the GNOME failsafe session is started.

Expected Results:  The user's GNOME session should start

Additional info:

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-10-06 16:17:39 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106189 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:58:59 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.