Re: [gdm-list] gdm restart after login + removing themes, language at gdm greeter

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Budiono:

> Still my problem doesn't solve, so finally I decide it to reinstall
> Fedora Core with no Gnome desktop, only Xorg and KDE install. After
> configuring LTSP and gdm.conf. At last, on terminal I can login into the
> server and running all X program well. I wonder what wrong with it? With
> GNOME Desktop installed, terminal always crash after login and
> displaying gdm login again. 

It's strange for GDM to work with KDE but not GNOME.  It's hard to
know what the problem is without looking into it.

> Another question I would like to remove Themes, Language and Session
> menu at gdm login/greeter. it is possible?

You can remove them if using gdmgreeter by removing the buttons from
the theme files.  See /usr/share/gdm/themes.  You can't remove the
menu choices from gdmlogin.

Brian


> On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 23:44, Brian Cameron wrote: 
> > Budiono:
> >
> > It is hard to know exactly what is going wrong for you.  Either
> > something is wrong with the command to launch the Xserver or the
> > GDM GUI, or you've found a more serious bug in GDM.
> >
> > I would test to make sure that you can run the Xserver command by
> > hand.  The gdm debug log should show you command it is using to try
> > and start the Xserver.  Does the same command work if try launching
> > X by hand with the same command?  You might check the Xserver error
> > log.
> >
> > If you can start it, can you run programs on the display?  For
> > example
> >
> > $ export DISPLAY=:x.y (xservercmd)&; gnome-terminal
> >
> > Now you have a terminal running you should be able to run:
> >
> > $ export DOING_GDM_DEVELOPMENT=1
> > $ /usr/lib/gdmlogin or /usr/lib/gdmgreeter
> >
> > Does the gdmlogin/gdmgreeter program show up okay?
> >
> > Any error messages you see doing any of these steps would indicate a
> > problem.  Sometimes gdmlogin/gdmgreeter won't start up properly if they
> > can't find a library it needs.  Running "ldd /usr/lib/gdmlogin" or
> > "ldd /usr/lib/gdmgreeter" is another way you can check for this error.
> > If the login program core dumps, it will also have the same behavior.
> > So changing the startup command for the login program so that it
> > starts it up via trace/truss might highlight if a core is happening
> > and might highlight why.
> >
> > > I have a problem using gdm with xdmcp enable. Everytime I try login from
> > > thin client, the gdm always restarting and display authentication
> > > windows again, althogh user and password is correct. I have look at
> > > /var/log/message with debug enable in gdm.conf but I don't understand
> > > what is going wrong. It seems the X server crash when I succesfully
> > > login to server. 
> > >
> > > My server running ltsp 4.1.1 using Fedora core 2 , with gdm 2.6.
> > > when I login X from server it is fine.
> > >
> > > Any idea what is going wrong 
> > > Thank's