FC4 --> FC5: GDM hosed

Kropotkin · 03-21-2006, 04:07 PM

I just upgraded my FC4 system to FC5 with the dvd disk installer. The is now up and running, I can ssh in and mount its nfs shares on my laptop. But I can't seem to login with gdm. Under FC4, I had it set up to log me in automatically (I am the only user on the machine). Now, however, I get an error message:

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Your session lasted less than ten seconds. 
There may be something wrong with your installation 
or you may be out of diskspace.

Try logging in a failsafe session to see if you can fix this problem.

It also indicates that something is wrong with a library:

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/usr/bin/gnome-session 
/usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0
symbol lookup error
undefined symbol: g-thread ...

I assume that this is an issue with gdm and the gdm-greeter, but I am not sure. Nor do I have any idea how to proceed, other than to install Ubuntu instead

Anyone have any ideas?

Kropotkin · 03-21-2006, 04:42 PM

After posting the message above, I encountered this message in the Slackware forum: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=386010

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"Re: "Your session only lasted 10 seconds...."
I'm not very skilled using command-line stuff in Linux so here is what worked for me:
1. Log in as root rather than your normal user name.
2. Access the User Manager via APPLICATIONS, SYSTEM SETTINGS, USERS AND GROUPS
3. Correct the Home Directory that is shown for the normal user name. Mine incorrectly showed "/root" as the home directory. I changed it to "/home/username". Reboot and log in normally. All works fine now. Hope this helps someone else.

Alas, I don't even get to the login prompt. However, I edited /etc/gdm/custom.conf on the command line and turned off the auto-login, but that didn't help; I no longer get the error message; all that is displayed is the arrow cursor with the blue tail.