On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 02:40 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 17:15 -0800, Rob Healey wrote: > >> Greetings and good evening! > >> > >> I would like to know if there has been a globally accepted fix for the > >> gnome-shell and gdm problem of either not working or the flashing gdm > >> problems yet??? > > > > Again, vague questions do not lead to satisfactory answers. It sounds > > like you're hitting a crash in gdm and also in Shell. I would recommend > > you look through the bugs filed against each recently, and also > > discussed on this list, and see if you can identify which ones you are > > suffering from. Then you can follow those reports to see when they are > > fixed. > > I think he's referring to the fact that GDM currently doesn't allow > use of anything other than gnome I don't think so. He said 'flashing'. That's typically a sign of it crashing, since it auto-respawns; so if it crashes on startup, you see it flickering as it starts up, crashes, starts up, crashes, starts up, crashes... > (IE I don't believe it gives you a > drop down list of the desktop environment to allow you to choose > multiple options). It was discussed, I believe on the desktop list, > and it was said that the removed feature would be added back prior to > the final stable release of gnome shell. It already has been added back, but I believe the updated package is only in updates-testing, it did not make the Alpha freeze. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
