Bug 750523 - Failed to load gdm-shell after installing xfce
Summary: Failed to load gdm-shell after installing xfce
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 746693
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: 16
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-01 13:29 UTC by Martin Krizek
Modified: 2011-11-01 14:45 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-11-01 14:45:50 UTC
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Description Martin Krizek 2011-11-01 13:29:56 UTC 
Description of problem:
When installing xfce from live spin, window pops up saying "Failed to load session gdm-shell" after firstboot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F16 RC3 xfce live spin x86_64, default installation

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install F16 RC3 from xfce live spin
2. Reboot
3.
  
Actual results:
gdm-shell fails to load.

Expected results:
gdm-shell loads successfully.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Martin Krizek 2011-11-01 13:36:08 UTC 
gdm version: 3.2.1.1-5.fc16
xfwm4 version: 4.8.1-5.fc16
Comment 2 Christoph Wickert 2011-11-01 14:45:50 UTC 
This is a bug in gdm. If gdm really needs metacity, it needs to be fixed in the gdm package. we can only fix it for the Xfce spin.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 746693 ***
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