Newly updated to all the updates-testing RPMs and getting two errors on login.
"The greeter appears to be crashing" appears. /etc/sysconfig/desktop was empty, but inserting DISPLAYMANAGER=GNOME did not cure the problem. No apparent traces in dmesg or /var/log/messages.
The power manager complains that it cannot start until dbus is active, but a ps examination shows dbus running. I suspect that something is running power manager before dbus comes up.
G.Wolfe Woodbury
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 16:16 -0400, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
Newly updated to all the updates-testing RPMs and getting two errors on login.
"The greeter appears to be crashing" appears. /etc/sysconfig/desktop was empty, but inserting DISPLAYMANAGER=GNOME did not cure the problem. No apparent traces in dmesg or /var/log/messages.
The power manager complains that it cannot start until dbus is active, but a ps examination shows dbus running. I suspect that something is running power manager before dbus comes up.
D-Bus's session bus is started when X is started. The system bus is started when you start the machine. ps might be showing you the system bus. Can you post the output of ps -aux | grep dbus? If you don't reboot on d-bus upgrades this can cause problems if there were ABI changes.
I don't quite follow what is happening. Is gdm (the greeter crashing) or is your desktop crashing so fast and restarting gdm that gdm thinks it is crashing?
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John (J5) Palmieri