Today I turned on my Fedora 19 desktop and instead of displaying the normal gdm login screen, it went directly into Gnome as user 'gdm' The only options are to log out or reboot. When I log out it immediately goes back into Gnome as user 'gdm'
I am absolutely lost on this. Does anyone have any suggestions?
This was a bug in a gdm package pushed to updates-testing. Upgrade to this package:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gdm-3.8.4-2.fc19
to fix your problem
The update has already been pushed to stable. However, if it hasn't reached your mirrors yet, please grab the rpms from koji and update your packages manually via yum localinstall: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=456225
Same thing with me and I don't have the dependencies to install the new version. I went into /etc/gdm/custom.conf and turned on automatic login and made my user id auto login and at least I was able to get past it:
[daemon]
# AutomaticLoginEnable=False
# AutomaticLogin=
AutomaticLoginEnable=True
AutomaticLogin=patrick
The bug says it's approved for stable updates so I'll wait for it instead of downgrading since I have a workaround.
There aren't any deps. You just need to grab the gdm and gdm-libs package from the koji build as I've commented above. I just did this, since yum update doesn't show the update yet.
Asked: 2013-08-13 13:31:33 -0500
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Thank you, that took care of it.
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