Re: GDM problem

[sbarar at gmail.com (Sudev Barar)]

On 11/21/05, Jack Bailey <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Went to login to the console this morning and got few errors about bad
> PNG files.  Logged out, now I can't log back in.  The lone dialog box
> has the following:
>
> There was an error loading the theme Default
> Couldn't recognize the image file format for file
> '/usr/share/gdm/themes/Default/background.png'
>
> I click OK, nothing happens.

If you can boot of any live cd you can then edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf
Go the line which has the above path and comment it out. Likely this would work.


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