I figured out what was happening. My home directory is NFS mounted to another server machine. During the last day when gdm logins worked, I apparently installed NetworkControl-gnome. I'm not sure why, I don't have wireless on this machine. Just futzing around with the new fc8 toy. For whatever reason, NetworkControl-gnome was causing my eth0 to drop, losing my NFS connection and the home mount. When I attempted to login with the home mount missing, gdm appeared to freeze. I removed NetworkControl-gnome and my problem has been resolved. Jim "Jim Duda" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fsou15$gn2$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >I recently upgraded from fc7 to fc8, about a week ago. > > Today, my gdm login is busted. After I enter my user name and password, gdm just hangs, and never starts up the > desktop. > > I have to boot the computer into init 3, login to a shell, then run startx. > > I do know what I could have done to break this. > > I no longer have a "login screen" configuration entry in system->administration, if that means anything to anyone. > > I uninstalled and reinstalled gdm, no luck. > > Same issue with any login, including root. > > Any ideas? > > Jim > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
