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Bug 106371

Summary:	gdm fails to start gdmgreeter
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Ralf Ertzinger <redhat-bugzilla>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	1.0
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Ralf Ertzinger 2003-10-06 15:52:05 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031003

Description of problem:
gdm fails to load gdmgreeter, and falls back to the standard greeter window.
Message in /var/log/messages:

gdmgreeter[4166]: No default session link found. Using Failsafe GNOME.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gdm-2.4.4.3-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start gdm

Actual Results:  gdm displays an error message about gdmgreeter, and falls back
to the standard greeter.

Expected Results:  gdmgreeter ought to be shown

Additional info:

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-10-06 16:16:44 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106189 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:58:58 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.