DAVID BENTLEY wrote:
Todays updates cause a major problem in that you can't
login because the Default theme is missing from the
following location :-
/usr/share/gdm/themes/Default
The solution is to boot in text mode (edit the boot
for the kernel that runs [latest kernel panics but
that another story] and add a 3 so it looks like rhgb
quiet 3 and then boot)
When you are in login as root and re-crate the default
folder by copying the Blucurve one and re-naming it to
Default.
logout and re-boot and all will be well again.
I just encountered this same thing and used a similar work-around. I
just logged into a Ctrl-Alt-F1 terminal, created a link named Default to
the Bluecurve directory, and inside the Default directory, created a
link named Default.xml to the Bluecurve.xml file. I guess the file link
isn't necessary if David got it to work the way he described.
The message when arriving at the login screen was can't find
/usr/share/gdm/themes/Default/Default.xml.
It then displayed an alternate login screen, but did not allow entering
a user name into the dialog field.
Gerry