Re: dealing with gdm failure

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:11:29 +0000 (GMT)
geoff@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On restart after what appeared to be a normal hibernate (from disk) the system came up as normal, but it was evident that there were severe problems. The flashing-light daemon reported problems with coreutils. So I rebooted. System would not go to runlevel 5, but 3 was good. I discovered that abrtd was looping, using about 50% of the CPU. Pushing that aside and rebooting, serious complaints from selinux. Disabled that. On reboot discovered that gdm was failing; probably the root of the problem. No errors in X.0.log.

Environment is Fedora 12, up-to-date as of today. I'm running the PAE kernel. Booted with the latest and 2 back. No change.

OK, so there's nothing wrong with the display (Windoze here). Any suggestions, or am I stuck with reinstall?

Start with rpm --verify --all > log

and the log will tell you if any binaries and stuff like that are
corrupted.
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