Bug#440563: gdm crashes with two monitors xinerama, gdmgreeter message

Sven Arvidsson sa at whiz.se
Mon Sep 3 18:28:39 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 19:38 +0000, yellow protoss wrote:
> I see that gdm is running and
> a gdmgreeter prompt is on the main screen of the system. After
> I login, do some work and logout, for some reason /usr/bin/gdmgreeter
> is no longer running. Therefore, I do not have a login prompt. At the moment all I am able to do is kill -9 all the gdm processes and process "1" restarts gdm properly with gdmgreeter.
> 
> After lot of searching, It looks like the file present in sarge
> Greeter=/usr/bin/gdmgreeter
> 
> is now to /usr/lib/gdm/gdmgreeter
> I hence added this to  /etc/gdm/gdm.conf :
> Greeter=/usr/lib/gdm/gdmgreeter

Hi,

This is already the default value set in defaults.conf. 

I'm guessing you didn't overwrite your old configuration file, or forgot
to change this after the upgrade?

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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