On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 19:25 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > > At some point, I was able to use the GDM login screen with > fedorainfinity-gdm-theme and doing my normal things with > fedora for at least two weeks after an install and somewhere > along the way after a reboot, GDM failed to bring up the > login screen. Crl-Alt-F1, and logging in a term session, > running Top - revealed that the gdmgreeter was running > a full solid 95% > > Ok, darn. > > I proceeded to use add Enable=True under the [Debug] section > in /etc/gdm/custom.conf and noticed on a gdm-restart - the debug > information was spewed in /var/log/messages file. LOTS of debug > data there. It appears that the debug stops spewing at the greeter > message handshake - but still running 85% CPU load. > > Double Darn. Ok, fine. > > The next step was to cd /usr/share/gdm, and look at the default.conf > file. At line 520: > > GrahpicalThemes=FedoraInfinity > #GraphicalThemes=circles/:happygnome > > I commented out 'FedoraInfinity' theme and selected > the 'happygnome' theme, did a gdm-restart and > LO' AND BEHOLD!! > > The login screen came up!!! > > So, before jumping the gun with self-pride.... WHAT THE F*** is > going ON!?!?!? > > Something in FedoraInfinity Theme is causing the gdmgreeter to > blow up? > > Is this a bug or what? ---- I vaguely recollect that FedoraInfinity gdm greeter used getent passwd to generate the list of users...have you been editing /etc/passwd by hand? Any problems running 'getent passwd' ? That's all I could think of...I use kdm But considering that gdm-greeter and FedoraInfinity is default on a new install, if there was a problem, it would certainly be in bugzilla...did you check? Craig
