On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 20:14 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > 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 ---- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Again...since you are talking about the default greeter and the default Theme, I tend to doubt that this is an endemic problem but rather something caused by something you did or installed somewhere. Craig
