Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 77825
GNOME hangs upon login splash screen
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:48:25 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 Description of problem: I upgraded to 8.0 from 7.3. Now, when any user logs in via GNOME the splash screen comes up, without any icons in its lower section. No amount of mouse clicking will produce further results. Ctl-alt-backspace will get back to level 3. The screen then shows an error message: 'GNOME not found'or similar--I don't have it in front of me. startx simply gets back to the same impasse. The only way I've found to get out of this is to reboot, a la Windows, and login via KDE. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.0.7-13 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.enter user name (any user) 2.enter password 3. Actual Results: As in the description above Expected Results: An active, utile GNOME desktop Additional info: gedit also will not work either in GNOME--since I can't get there--or KDE. There may be other broken links but mostly they relate to the "upgrade" not eliminating older versions of packages.
The exact message when I ctl-alt-backspace to level 3 is: /etc/X11/prefdm: line 1: GNOME: command not found This led to a review of prefdm which, in turn led to /etc/sysconfig/desktop. The only line in desktop was: GNOME. I compared that with another macine running RH 8.0 and changed it from GNOME to DESKTOP="" Unfortunately, this had no effect. I still had to reboot and go to KDE to get back in operation.
That isn't a valid value of /etc/sysconfig/desktop (and shouldn't have been written out), though an invalid value there doesn't explain a hang, perhaps the same problem that resulted in an invalid value there also resulted in the hang. Can you attach the output of "rpm -qav" and "rpm -Va"
Created attachment 85740 [details] results of rpm -qav
Created attachment 85741 [details] output of rpm -aV
Just a shot in the dark, what has changed about this file vs. the stock 8.0 version: S.5....T c /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
I'm not sure what the vanilla 8.0 versioon should look like but I compared teh file with its cousin on anotehr machine. The other machine had an additional section on sysresouces. I copied this into the Xsetup_0 file on this machine, logged out and logged in again. The usual results. I also tried "switchdesk KDE" to get back into the GUI, but to no effect. I am also surprised to see so many files in the rpm -aV output since this machine has been scrupulously updated via up2date.
Upon further experimentation I find that redhat-config-date also doesn't work. I get a series of error messages, to wit: File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/redhat-config-date.py", line 35, in ? mainWindow.mainWindow().stand_alone() File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/mainWindow.py", line 181, in __init__ self.timezonePage = timezone_gui.timezonePage() File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/timezone_gui.py", line 50, in __init__ self.tz = TimezoneMap(zonetab, self.default, map=path) File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/timezone_map_gui.py", line 139, in __init__ self.setCurrent(self.currentEntry) File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/timezone_map_gui.py", line 180, in setCurrent self.markers[self.currentEntry.tz].hide() AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'tz'
Jeremy have you heard of problems like this with upgrades?
No, although the redhat-config-date traceback is a dupe of another that I filed (and is fixed)
I don't really have an idea where else to go on this report; we don't have any similar reports, and it doesn't happen here. Assuming some kind of local filesystem problem, or other strangeness...