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Hello everybody!
I updated my system with the following two-step procedure:
pacman -Syu
for regular packages and
pacbuilder -Sbu
(pacbuilder is an ABS manager) for ABS packages... The building of some packages with pacbuilder fails, but all is under control, since they were minor packages...
Ok, so I reboot my system, but...
My login manager (GDM) is totally different!!!!
There's a "safe" theme set... So I login in order to try to fix it through its settings-utility...
BUT IT DOESN'T EVEN START... So I try to uninstall and reinstall GDM, and pacman (thanks God) says:
(Personal translation from Italian, this message may differ in the English version of pacman)
attention: the permissions of the directories are different on var/log/gdm
filesystem: 1775 package: 1777
attention: the permissions of the directories are different on var/log/gdm
filesystem: 1770 package: 755
What does it mean? How should I interpret this message?
Is this the cause of my "safe mode"-running GDM and the impossibility to fix it?
How can I fix this problem?
ATTENTION: EDIT: I updated another Arch on another pc of mine, this time using only pacman, and I found the same problem. In particular I didn't say that as soon as I updated my system and exit Openbox, the screen became black and a window said there were problems with a "greeter application", and that I could not login, and I had to find another way... I'm sorry, I've not written the message, since I was so scared that I barely read the message, hoping it was not dangerous... PLEASE HELP ME! I spent a whole afternoon drawing with GIMP my own GDM theme, and, beyond anything, I'm so scared for my system!!!!!!!!
ATTENTION: EDIT: I installed slim and put it in the DAEMON array in rc.conf instead of gdm, but when I try to login, the operation fails. I tried 10-12 times to login, and carefully checked every single pressed key, no lock was active, so I couldn't make mistakes. The only two ways to login now are: using the "safemode" GDM or CTRL+ALT+F1 and text-mode login... Nothing else works... Help me please...
Last edited by thecellarguardian (2009-10-13 22:00:30)
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May need more detail, however it sounds to me like what your seeing is the latest version of gnome. It's support of GDM themes is very different, for example administratrion>login window doesn't exist anymore and it uses regular GTK themes for style, like the preferences>appearance dialog.
I'm not clear on what else you have going on, but this may explain what your seeing with GDM.
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