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jsumners

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From: Fairburn, GA

Registered: 2006-09-05

Posts: 19

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GDM not starting correctly after upgrade

I just got around to upgrading my machine to the new /usr based Gnome and XFCE. Now, when GDM starts I get the error shown in this screenshot -- http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?imag … estpn0.png. I've removed GDM and reinstalled it to no avail. Any suggestions as to how to fix this problem? I would like to have my themed GDM back.

gentoofu

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Registered: 2006-10-05

Posts: 34

Re: GDM not starting correctly after upgrade

I was having this same problem. I can't remember what I did to solve it... Maybe it was the uninstallation of uim and scim-anthy...

aficionado

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Registered: 2005-06-11

Posts: 14

Re: GDM not starting correctly after upgrade

Make sure your themes are moved over to /usr/share/gdm/themes.

mv /opt/gnome/share/gdm/themes/* /usr/share/gdm/themes/*

I think this was the main thing but I also forced a reinstall of gdm and then restarted.  The restarting was accidental (telinit 0 ) but that might have also played some role.

Good luck.

karmapolice

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Registered: 2007-01-31

Posts: 113

Re: GDM not starting correctly after upgrade

I also have to delete

/etc/gdm/custom.conf

jsumners

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From: Fairburn, GA

Registered: 2006-09-05

Posts: 19

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Re: GDM not starting correctly after upgrade

After a thorough purging of old GDM references, which I thought I had done, everything seems to be in working order. Thanks guys.