Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 78116
Clicking Language in GUI login screen makes the screen reset
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:48:33 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: I _think_ what's happening when I click Language in the GUI login screen is that it's resetting the image, but I can't be sure. No error messages. It clicks, goes black, comes back with the little watch/wait thing, and then the login screen returns unchanged. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install with Server class 2. Add X, GNOME, and KDE. 3. click the Language item to pretend to change which language I want to work with in my login session 4. click, blackscreen, and so on 5. Back to normal. If I click again, same thing happens. Actual Results: in Description Expected Results: should display a language selection window Additional info: Brand new beta1 install, haven't even created a user account yet.
Sounds like an X bug - I'm betting fixed in later betas, but need to verify.
Taking GDM target/blockers.
I fairly strongly guess what is happening is that gdm is crashing and restarting. If this still happens currently, what would be most useful is before switching language to switch to a console with <Control><Alt>F1, login in to the system as root, type gdb /usr/bin/gdb `/sbin/pidof gdm` (gdb) c Now switch back to the login screen with <Control><Alt>F7 (or maybe F8), click on the language screen. When it crashes, GDM will appear to hang, switch back to the console, gdb should report a segfault, type (gdb) bt To get a backtrace. You should be able to use the mouse and middle button paste to paste this (or at least the first 10-20 lines) into an editor. And attach it to the bug report. Sorry for the long procedure ... it's harder to debug things at the pre-login stage.
Bluecurve theme has shutdown_button where it needs halt_button.
Wrong bug, sorry for the noise.
Please reopen if this persists.