Description of problem: gdm is not starting and presenting a login screen. Running /etc/X11/prefdm by hand just exits, as does /usr/sbin/gdm. However, I can get gdm to work by commenting out the line test -f /etc/profile && . /etc/profile in /usr/sbin/gdm. Leaving this in, the script seems to terminate before the binary is invoked. (Of course, this leaves things like the language unset.) This started after a recent update, but I don't know the precise component causing the trouble. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.28.1-7.fc12.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.0-5.fc12.x86_64 initscripts-9.00-1.x86_64 setup-2.8.9-1.fc12.noarch How reproducible: Always. Actual results: No automatic gdm start. Have to log in on a VT as root and run gdm-binary by hand. Expected results: Graphical login.
are you getting errors when running /etc/profile directly? -- Fedora BugZappers Team Member
Can't see anything particularly wrong (at least when run as an unprivileged user): [james@rhapsody ~]$ source /etc/profile ; echo $? 0 [james@rhapsody ~]$
I can't reproduce here, I updated my gdm but was installed the version 2.28.1-5, looking at koji I noticed that next version than you have installed mentions about "- Attempt to fix crash some users see." maybe your problem... try get and update it -- Fedora BugZappers Team Member
Do you have environment-modules installed?
See bug 530770.
Yes: [james@rhapsody ~]$ rpm -q environment-modules environment-modules-3.2.7b-4.fc12.x86_64 (Extra note. This particular machine was upgraded from Fedora 11 via preupgrade, and worked fine afterwards. It's only been since this morning that this started.) I'll try the update mentioned in Bug 530770.
Fixed by new environment-modules package. Marking as duplicate and closing.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 530770 ***