[wplug] gdm: "Failsafe dialog failed"

[Chester R. Hosey]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 12:54 -0400, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Robert E. Coutch wrote:
> 
> > What distro are you using?
> >
> 
> Debian testing -- nearly current.  The problem exists only for my user and 
> it exists no matter what Desktop Environment I select (Gnome, KDE, Xfce). 
> I'm fairly confident now that it's not an X problem, strictly -- since X 
> still starts for my user, it just exits shortly thereafter.
> 
> I've posted to the debian-testing list and am in a bit of a conversation 
> there; I just now mailed a message to the (relatively disused) gdm mailing 
> list asking for an explanation of the error message below, though it 
> doesn't seem to be a gdm problem either.
> 
> I'm pulling at straws here.  Would welcome suggestions.
> 
> Regarding the font server: That has been the same all along, and the 
> config file says that it falls back to the explicit font paths in case 
> there is no font server running, so I don't think that's it.

If it's a per-user configuration problem (it works for others, just not
you), it's almost definitely not the X configuration. If you don't have
lots of important configuration saved, I'd probably just kill gnome's
configuration files in your home directory (probably .gnome2/,
maybe .gconf/ and similar).

Reinstalling X or any associated packages won't remove the configuration
in your user account.

I'm in the middle of a move and my Debian machine is currently waiting
for me to find the power cord, so it's hard to provide any sort of more
specific testing that might help you to find the problem.

Chet