On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 08:01:41AM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
> gpm autologin was broken in rawhide; it's now fixed. If you
do
> something like:
> yum -y install gpm --nogpgcheck
> ..it should fix it.
Using yum to (re)install gdm did get beyond the earlier stall -- though I
had to first press <esc> to "awaken" the login window, and follow that by
clicking on "soas user" to actually launch the login.
This shows the vulnerability of the login process to a "single point
of failure". When 'gdm autologin' broke, the user was *not* being
offered any opportunity to bring up the gui any other way
Indeed. One alternative is to write our own session manager, like
OLPC has. I'm not signing up for that.
(once the gdm had stalled, even startx from a text console did not
work).
I did actually have startx work fine for me (as liveuser). It didn't
work for you?
mikus
Martin