Re: FC5 - "The Greeter application seems to be crashing"

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• Subject: Re: FC5 - "The Greeter application seems to be crashing"
• From: "G.Wolfe Woodbury" <ggw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:50:22 -0400
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On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 05:39:56PM -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > It seems that the prefered greeter is kdm, which you doesn't have.
> 
> The prefered greeter for FC/Gnome is gdm although it is possible that
> ths got mixed up.
> 
> Bob should post his /etc/X11/prefdm as is.

The real problem here is that /etc/sysconfig/desktop is blank.
I had this after the recent updates, and discovered that there was nothing
defined in /etc/sysconfig/desktop.

Adding:
DISPLAYMANAGER=GNOME

cured the problem.

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