Description of problem: I have installed my system by deselecting GNOME desktop, ie. only KDE is installed. Here is what I see: - select a user in gdm: session button is empty, although KDE session is available on the system - login, gdm disappears, session doesn't come up, BUT X server stays up on vt7! - gdm log file has a warning about "Default session not found" - gdm restarts, detects X on vt7, starts new X server on vt8 (and here my system goes into hard-lock after some seconds, but that might be a problem of the xorg-x11-drv-ati...) If I install "gnome-session" by hand login starts to work. The session button now shows GNOME & KDE when you enter a user name. You can now successfully startup a KDE session. Wild guess: KDE session is symbolic link: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 2008-04-04 22:30 kde.desktop -> /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/sessions/kde.desktop Maybe gdm doesn't like it that it only finds a symbolic link... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.21.10-0.2008.04.07.1.fc9.i386 gnome-session-2.22.0-2.fc9.i386
This should be fixed as of last nights gdm build: * Mon Apr 07 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode> - 1:2.21.10-0.2008.04.07.3 - Disable image for automatic login and other user - Act more sanely if gnome isn't installed
Confirmed, gdm works OK now. Thanks.