Description of problem: gdm fails to load Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.20.3-1.fc8 How reproducible: Always happens Steps to Reproduce: 1. Switch on the system, after normal startup when GDM loads just before the login window appears, gdm tries to load several times before dropping you to the command line after a blue curses type screen explaining that gdm crashed several times. 2. 3. Actual results: X seems to flash on and off a few times, you then get a popup message saying "The greeter application seems to have failed" Expected results: Normal login through GDM greeter Additional info: After a few retries GDM eventually gives up and you can login on the command line. Once logged in "startx" gets X11 up without any problem. Worked around the problem by setting default run level to 3 and starting x manually but gdm won't start even when I start it from command line once X is started, same popup error occurs.
This wasn't a bug, my tmp wasn't full at all but installing a really old citrix client seems to have changed the permissions on my /tmp and therefore greeter or gdm were not able to write there.