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Bug 106376
| Summary: | gdm fails to start the default GNOME session | ||
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| 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> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:58:59 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106189 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031003 Description of problem: (Note: my default session is GNOME) After selecting the default session (or GNOME session) in gdm, gdm displays a message stating: "Could not find or run the base session script, will try the GNOME failsafe session for you." It then successfully starts the GNOME failsafe session. /var/log/messages shows: gdm[4418]: gdm_slave_session_start: Cannot find or run the base Xsession script, will try GNOME failsafe Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.4.4.3-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select GNOME session in gdm 2. Log in 3. Actual Results: An error message shows, and the GNOME failsafe session is started. Expected Results: The user's GNOME session should start Additional info: