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Re: gdm's greeter crashing



On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 10:17, Mpiktas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > My gdm is crashing. Couple of bugs filed against gdm because of
> > this. One of the bug reports suggests that the problem was triggered by
> > yesterday's libpam update, and also that using the old GDM login rather
> > than the graphical greeter works around the problem (I've confirmed
> > this.)
> > 
> > Anyone else seeing this?
> >
> I can confirm it too. Standart greeter works, but changing to graphical  
> greeter imediately results in problem. Guess what do I do when I see standart  
> greeter:) I downgraded gdm to version 2.4.1.3-2 which solved the problem.

Perhaps, but 2.4.1.6 has an important security fix.  See:

http://lwn.net/Articles/45778/

Jamie

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