Bug 750523

Summary: Failed to load gdm-shell after installing xfce
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Martin Krizek <mkrizek>
Component: gdmAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: christoph.wickert, kevin, maxamillion, rstrode
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Description Martin Krizek 2011-11-01 13:29:56 UTC
Description of problem:
When installing xfce from live spin, window pops up saying "Failed to load session gdm-shell" after firstboot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F16 RC3 xfce live spin x86_64, default installation

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install F16 RC3 from xfce live spin
2. Reboot
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Actual results:
gdm-shell fails to load.

Expected results:
gdm-shell loads successfully.

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Comment 1 Martin Krizek 2011-11-01 13:36:08 UTC
gdm version: 3.2.1.1-5.fc16
xfwm4 version: 4.8.1-5.fc16

Comment 2 Christoph Wickert 2011-11-01 14:45:50 UTC
This is a bug in gdm. If gdm really needs metacity, it needs to be fixed in the gdm package. we can only fix it for the Xfce spin.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 746693 ***