[gdm-list] [resolved] Re: GLib-CRITICAL error after upgrading to Gnome 2.20...

[ritz <khadgaray gmail com>]

Hello

  Thanks for the info.

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 20:32 +0100, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:49:28 -0600
> Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM> wrote:
> 
> > Bjørn:
> > 
> > >> On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 08:02 +0100, Bjørn T Johansen wrote:
> > >>> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:35:49 +0100
> > >>> Bjørn T Johansen <btj havleik no> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> I get a lot of these error messages after I upgraded to Gnome 2.20... (when starting gdm)
> > >>>>
> > >>>> gdm[9455]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_key_file_get_keys: assertion `key_file != NULL' failed
> > 
> > This probably means taht GDM is having trouble reading the GDM
> > configuration files.
> > 
> > >>>> Is there a way to fix this? It seems to be working ok but when starting GDM, it takes 10 sec. to print all
> > >>>> the error lines before gdm starts...
> > >> I suspect gdm config file is probably busted.
> > > 
> > > How do I fix the gdm config file? Just delete it or should I find a clean config file somewhere?
> > 
> > You should be able to run these commands to find out which files GDM is 
> > using for its defaults and custom configuration files:
> > 
> > Defaults file:
> > 
> >     gdmflexiserver --command="GET_CONFIG_FILE"
> > 
> > Custom file:
> > 
> >     gdmflexiserver --command="GET_CUSTOM_CONFIG_FILE"
> > 
> > Do both files exist?  The defaults file should contain reasonable
> > default values for most keys.  The custom file can be empty, or just a
> > template without any keys actually defined.
> > 
> > You might try moving aside your custom configuration file to a different 
> > name and create an empty custom file with the same name.  If this fixes
> > the problem.  Then you might want to simply run gdmsetup and reconfigure
> > GDM as you want rather than trying to track down the specific problem in
> > how the custom configuration file got corrupted.
> > 
> > Brian
> 
> Thx, this pushed me in the right direction... I removed /usr/share/gdm/default.conf and reinstalled gdm, and it
> was solved... :)
> 
> 
> BTJ
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