Description of problem: The graphical greeter is crashing intermitently - it does so 9/10, but every so often it hangs in there. When it crashes I get the error: "The greeter program appears to be crashing. I will attempt to use a different one." Which then works. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.6.0.8-16 How reproducible: At a guess, 9/10 logons. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot/Reboot; logoff 2.Get error (as above) 3.Logon with "Standard Greeter" Actual results: "Standard Greeter" Expected results: "Graphical Greeter" Additional info: Seems bug may be similar to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138996 Similar reports at FedoraForum (inc mine): http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=74806 http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=61636 (mine doesn't fix like so) http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=74949
Created attachment 118178 [details] System Log filtered on "greeter"
(In reply to comment #0) I am one of the posters in the first Fedora forum thread mentioned above. Said behavior began after an update which included updates to audit and audit libs. During shut down I notice some instances of text scrolling by (too fast to read) regarding audit that end with the warning "Failed!". Hopefully that provides the devs with some clues. Like morgan read, this behavior is not consistent and appears to occur for me only after a complete system shutdown, but not during a restart.
My last yum update seems to have fixed this for me... I don't know why, but here's the relavent yum log which will no doubt contain the reason - HTH... (I notice audit in there...) M. Aug 30 02:23:24 (yumex) Updated: glibc-common.i386 2.3.5-10.3 Aug 30 02:24:15 (yumex) Updated: glibc.i686 2.3.5-10.3 Aug 30 02:24:19 (yumex) Updated: bind-libs.i386 24:9.3.1-10_FC4 Aug 30 02:24:21 (yumex) Updated: bind-utils.i386 24:9.3.1-10_FC4 Aug 30 02:24:27 (yumex) Updated: bind.i386 24:9.3.1-10_FC4 Aug 30 02:24:29 (yumex) Updated: pcre.i386 5.0-4.1.fc4 Aug 30 02:24:34 (yumex) Updated: php.i386 5.0.4-10.4 Aug 30 02:24:50 (yumex) Updated: glibc-headers.i386 2.3.5-10.3 Aug 30 02:24:53 (yumex) Updated: synce.i386 0.9.1-3.fc4 Aug 30 02:24:54 (yumex) Updated: audit-libs.i386 1.0.3-1.fc4 Aug 30 02:25:04 (yumex) Updated: libgal2.i386 2:2.4.3-1.fc4 Aug 30 02:25:12 (yumex) Updated: php-pear.i386 5.0.4-10.4 Aug 30 02:25:13 (yumex) Updated: php-ldap.i386 5.0.4-10.4 Aug 30 02:25:15 (yumex) Updated: bind-chroot.i386 24:9.3.1-10_FC4 Aug 30 02:25:19 (yumex) Updated: cvs.i386 1.11.19-9 Aug 30 02:25:23 (yumex) Updated: audit.i386 1.0.3-1.fc4 Aug 30 02:25:24 (yumex) Updated: php-odbc.i386 5.0.4-10.4 Aug 30 02:25:26 (yumex) Updated: diskdumputils.i386 1.1.9-2 Aug 30 02:25:28 (yumex) Updated: libsoup.i386 2.2.3-4.FC4 Aug 30 02:25:47 (yumex) Updated: system-config-bind.noarch 4.0.0-30_FC4 Aug 30 02:25:49 (yumex) Updated: slocate.i386 2.7-22.fc4.1 Aug 30 02:25:51 (yumex) Updated: synce-devel.i386 0.9.1-3.fc4 Aug 30 02:25:54 (yumex) Updated: MyODBC.i386 2.50.39-25.FC4.1 Aug 30 02:26:06 (yumex) Updated: doxygen.i386 1:1.4.4-0.fc4.1 Aug 30 02:26:08 (yumex) Updated: eject.i386 2.1.1-0.fc4.1 Aug 30 02:26:13 (yumex) Updated: glibc-devel.i386 2.3.5-10.3 Aug 30 02:26:17 (yumex) Updated: tar.i386 1.15.1-8.FC4 Aug 30 02:26:18 (yumex) Updated: php-pgsql.i386 5.0.4-10.4 Aug 30 02:26:19 (yumex) Updated: php-mysql.i386 5.0.4-10.4 Aug 30 02:26:21 (yumex) Updated: redhat-rpm-config.noarch 8.0.34-1.1 Aug 30 02:26:25 (yumex) Updated: dhcpv6_client.i386 0.10-14_FC4 Aug 30 02:26:30 (yumex) Updated: nscd.i386 2.3.5-10.3
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.
Change to "worksforme", which it now does.