Re: dealing with gdm failure

2010-01-12 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:11:29 + (GMT) ge...@hughes.net wrote: > On restart after what appeared to be a normal hibernate (from disk) the > system came up as normal, but it was evident that there were severe problems. > The flashing-light daemon reported problems with coreutils. So I rebooted.

Re: dealing with gdm failure

2010-01-11 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 01/11/2010 10:09:22 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 21:48:41 -0800, > Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > > > In my own defense I was posting using my ISP's mail package: > > Usually there is a way to turn it off or at least provide a text/ > plain > alternative attachment. > >

Re: dealing with gdm failure

2010-01-11 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On 01/11/2010 09:35:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > You'll have better luck getting an answer if you: > > 1) Don't hijack threads. Your post has nothing to do with the thread > it > appears in. > > 2) Don't use HTML on this list. In my own defense I was posting using my ISP's mail package:

Re: dealing with gdm failure

2010-01-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
You'll have better luck getting an answer if you: 1) Don't hijack threads. Your post has nothing to do with the thread it appears in. 2) Don't use HTML on this list. See the list Guidelines at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines (mentioned in the footer of every messa

dealing with gdm failure

2010-01-11 Thread geoff
On restart after what appeared to be a normal hibernate (from disk) the system came up as normal, but it was evident that there were severe problems. The flashing-light daemon reported problems with coreutils. So I rebooted. System would not go to runlevel 5, but 3 was good. I discovered that abrtd