On Feb 28, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Andrew Farris wrote:
> David G. Mackay wrote:
>> I just updated an f9-alpha installation, and now I can't log in to
>> X. I
>> see a message from gdm-simple-slave saying that it's "unable to
>> determine session to activate" and then it restarts the login
>> process.
>>> From the user standpoint, I give it a username and password, the
>>> screen
>> goes blank for a while, then I go back to the gdm login screen.
>
> Similar to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435104
> although could be two separate issues. In my comments there I had
> something like what Matej originally reports, but also something
> like what you've got here, so I may have two problem sources.
No, those are the same *symptom*, but probably different problems.
On my rawhide boxes, when gnome-session starts it gets an X Window
System error:
The program 'gnome-session' received an X Window System error. This
probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadWindow
(invalid Window parameter)'.
(Details: serial 22 error_code 3 request_code 2 minor_code 0)
(that's from my .xsession-errors file)
Doesn't have anything to do with pressing a key. I'll file (or find)
about this shortly.
By the way - booting into runlevel 3 and running 'startx' works fine.
Still trying to figure out the cause of this one..
-w