From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041002 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: In the latest Xclients file an fi is missing that causes you not to be able to log in. In the block trying to figure out PREFERRED it has: if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then . /etc/sysconfig/desktop if [ "$DESKTOP" = "GNOME" ]; then PREFERRED=gnome-session elif [ "$DESKTOP" = "KDE" ]; then PREFERRED=startkde fi This should be: if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then . /etc/sysconfig/desktop if [ "$DESKTOP" = "GNOME" ]; then PREFERRED=gnome-session elif [ "$DESKTOP" = "KDE" ]; then PREFERRED=startkde fi fi Note the fi after the startkde line. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xinitrc-4.0.7-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. startx or try to log in from XDM Actual Results: Not able to start X session Expected Results: X logs in correctly Additional info:
Also bug: #134673 #134711 #134726
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 134673 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.