how to sove this problem ?

dina123 · 07-04-2007, 10:31 AM

Hello Everybody

when i reboot my pc the following message has been throw.
"gdm user does not exist. Please correct gdm configuration /etc/x11/gdm/gdm.conf and restart gdm"

and the pc cant go ahead than this message.

I am the beginer of linus. so could sombody help me regarding solving this problem ??

pixellany · 07-04-2007, 10:42 AM

What distribution (version) of Linux are you using?

Has this computer worked previously---i.e. is this a new problem?

When it gets to this message, see if you can get a command-line by typing ctrl-alt-F1

dina123 · 07-04-2007, 08:51 PM

i used Enterprise version 4.

the computer properly worked previously.

nothing can be typed before or after of this message.

pixellany · 07-04-2007, 09:02 PM

See if you can boot into single-user mode:

When the GRUB menu appears, hit any key to stop the countdown. Then "e" for edit. To the line beginning with "kernel", add the word "single" at the end, and then reboot ("b" in grub). Once it is running, look at /etc/x11/gdm/gdm.conf and tell us what's there.

You can also boot from a live CD and look at this file.