Craig White wrote: >Subject: Re: GDM Greeter Hangs, 92% CPU. Cannot bring up >FedoraInfinityLogin screen. > >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 92% >> >> 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 92% 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' ? Yes, I did add entries by hand at first but then removed them and used adduser command, then went back and cleaned it up by hand. I ran 'getent passwd' and it database dumped the passwd file, so it seems. > >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? No, I did not but I did use google search and there were complaints about it and various responses but none that solved the underlying issue. That is why I experimented and found out that it was somehow FedoraInfinity that was causing it - albeit maybe only a symptom. Dunno. Can you give me a link to Bugzilla - it's been many years since I have gone there. But even if you do, I am not sure what to do... just post a bug report like I described what I did in this posting? Anyway, I thought for SURE it was caused by ISPConfig because it was there that I experienced all sorts of wierd stuff - I lost the use of setroubleshoot/sealert (runs high CPU), and then could not get the GDM login screen - so I basically went through and started removing all the packages including ISPConfig that I added one by one so that I knew there was nothing left that I did not install myself. At that point - I decided to dive into /etc/gdm and /usr/share/gdm and so now I *think* it's that newfalngled FedoraInfinity theme and it means what it means - the gdmgreeter runs to fedora infinity at high CPU loads! :P No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.2/1184 - Release Date: 12/14/2007 11:29 AM
