Bug 745302

Summary:	gdm won't start
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Horst H. von Brand 2011-10-12 00:06:56 UTC

Description of problem:
On boot, X starts but the gdm greeter doesn't show up. A ps in a tty shows three gdm* processes. Restarting X doesn't help. Neither does telinit 3; telinit 5

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-3.2.0-2.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot into graphics mode
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Comment 1 Horst H. von Brand 2011-10-12 00:11:47 UTC

BTW, a message about non-existent /use/lib/ConsoleKit/run-seat.d shows, there are just a run session.d and a scripts directory in there

Comment 2 Horst H. von Brand 2011-10-24 18:37:59 UTC

This machine (a netbook) was going flakey, so I reinstalled Fedora 16 beta from scratch. No more troubles, seems that some file got damaged somehow.