From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: After I change my desktop background's picture and then reboot I get the following error message instead of the graphical greeter: "The greeter program appears to be crashing. I will attempt to use a different one." I hit okay, then the standard greeter appears. If I log in and then log out the same error message appears. I also continue to get the error message even if I reboot. I found a work around: After changing the background's picture I do the following: Go to Login Screen Setup Change Greeter, Local to Standard Greeter Log Out Log in Go to Login Screen Setup Change Greeter, Local to Graphical Greeter Log Out and notice the error message does not appear Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.6.0.8-16 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Right click on desktop 2. Choose Configure Desktop 3. Choose new picture for Background 4. Hit Apply 5. Hit Okay 6. Reboot Actual Results: Error message appears: "The greeter program appears to be crashing. I will attempt to use a different one." Expected Results: The graphical greeter should have appeared. Additional info: I use my own pictures in KDE desktop.
I just started getting this error when I upgraded all my machine's packages to current Fedora Core devel. I didn't change my background or anything like that; just the upgrade was enough to make the greeter start crashing. It's intermittent; sometimes it crashes, and sometimes it doesn't. I see this messages in /var/log/messages, which are probably relevant: Jul 18 18:15:55 jik2 gdmgreeter[3097]: Unexpected greeter command received: ''' Jul 18 18:27:23 jik2 gdmgreeter[5631]: Unexpected greeter command received: 'a' Jul 18 18:30:49 jik2 gdmgreeter[6428]: Unexpected greeter command received: '' Jul 18 18:36:34 jik2 gdmgreeter[7484]: Unexpected greeter command received: '4' Jul 18 18:36:55 jik2 gdmgreeter[7987]: Unexpected greeter command received: 'c' Jul 18 18:59:05 jik2 gdmgreeter[11616]: Unexpected greeter command received: '['
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
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