Comment 26 for bug 259156

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b (ben-ekran) wrote : Re: [Bug 259156] Re: gdm fails to start after hardy upgrade

Attached is my gdm.conf

How can I confirm (overwrite) this file to make sure its the proper
fresh installed config? I don't recall making any changes to it.

Thanks,
.b.

Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Hmm, looking at all the various logs, there still doesn't seem to be any
> error message indicating that X is doing something wrong. So not sure
> that this can be troubleshot from the X angle... I know this was
> rejected as not being a gdm issue, but given that xdm is working, it
> makes me wonder if there is something GNOME-ish broken.
>
> gdm is configured with the /etc/gdm/gdm.conf file. Can you experiment
> with removing or changing some of the parameters in that file,
> particularly as relates to anything mentioning "failsafe"?
>
> It would also be helpful if you could try booting a Jaunty LiveCD (ISOs
> available at http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/releases/jaunty/) and seeing if
> you can reproduce the issue there.
>
> ** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
>