I took the plunge and updated to f8 rawhide. Updating : gdm ##################### [ 63/343] /usr/share/gnome/help/gdm/es/gdm.xml:4338: parser error : Entity 'quote' not defined " property set to "true" to draw login transition background before "item"e; % rpm -q gdm gdm-2.19.1-1.fc8
seems fixed in 2.19.2