From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020401 Description of problem: Changing the 'Browser' option in 'gdm.conf' from 'false' to 'true' crashes 'X' at start-up after logging out from the current session. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sawfish-1.0.1-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in to GNOME session. 2. Set 'Browser=true' in 'gdm.conf' 3. Log out Actual Results: After several unsuccessful attempts of launching the X server, the user is dropped to text console login. Expected Results: The X server should have started up as expected, and the graphical login panel of 'gdm' should have appeared with user faces enabled. Additional info: Observed on two different machines running 'XFree86*' and 'Xhp*' respectively.
works for me - can you give more details - how many users do you have, do some of them have faces, can you change whether it happens by varying those things? Or does it happen on any machine with any users, and I'm just not following the right steps to reproduce the problem?
I have simply changed the browser option to 'true' without any further customization. Adding or removing a 'photo' file to any or some of the users did not change anything. However, '/var/log/messages' exhibits the following error messages which were issued while 'gdm' was respawned before the user was finally dropped back to text console mode: Apr 16 15:20:37 leibniz init: Switching to runlevel: 5 Apr 16 15:20:37 leibniz autofs: automount startup succeeded Apr 16 15:20:37 leibniz wine: Registering binary handler for Windows applications Apr 16 15:20:38 leibniz rc: Starting wine: succeeded Apr 16 15:20:38 leibniz gdm[4325]: run_pictures: Directory /usr/games/.gnome/gdm does not exist. Apr 16 15:20:38 leibniz gdm[4325]: run_pictures: Directory /var/gopher/.gnome/gdm does not exist. Apr 16 15:20:38 leibniz gdm[4325]: run_pictures: Directory /var/ftp/.gnome/gdm does not exist. Apr 16 15:20:38 leibniz gdm[4325]: run_pictures: Directory /var/lib/rpm/.gnome/gdm does not exist. Apr 16 15:20:38 leibniz gdm[4325]: run_pictures: Directory /dev/.gnome/gdm does not exist. Apr 16 15:20:38 leibniz gdm[4325]: run_pictures: Directory /etc/ntp/.gnome/gdm does not exist. Apr 16 15:20:38 leibniz gdm[4325]: run_pictures: Directory //.gnome/gdm does not exist. Apr 16 15:20:38 leibniz gdm[4325]: run_pictures: Directory /var/lib/nfs/.gnome/gdm does not exist. Apr 16 15:20:38 leibniz gdm[4325]: run_pictures: Directory /var/lib/nfs/.gnome/gdm does not exist. Apr 16 15:20:38 leibniz gdm[4325]: run_pictures: Directory //.gnome/gdm does not exist. Apr 16 15:20:38 leibniz gdm[4325]: run_pictures: Directory /var/arpwatch/.gnome/gdm does not exist. Apr 16 15:20:38 leibniz gdm[4325]: run_pictures: Directory /home/lorene/.gnome/gdm does not exist. before repeating the whole sequence. The involved accounts happen to be those tho which nobody has ever logged in. Logically, they hence do not exhibit any '.gnome' directory which 'gdm' seems to be desperately seeking. I guess that's the reason why things mess up.
Code for this is changed substantially in Rawhide, need to confirm that it still occurs.
Please reopen if still happening in 8.0.
Bug resolved at least as of Fedora Core 1. No prior version of Red Hat Linux at my disposal anymore. Thanks!