[gdm] doesn't start anymore (greeter problem)

esquimo_2ooo · n00b Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 6

Hey all, i've been searching the whole forum without success, so i hope you guys will help me with my really weird problem.

When i type (root) gdm as i usually do, i now have a black screen with an error message: "The theme for the graphical greeter is corrupt. It does not contain definition for the username/password entry element."

If i remember well the last thing i did was to put a symlink in .kde/autostart to have gnome-control-daemon when X start, to have gnome themes for xchat, xmms, gimp, all the stuff like this.

I've tried to rm this link, i've reemerged gdm, gdm-themes, and an other thing (don't remember), but I always have this message.

I'm now forced to use kdm, but now there's a lot of missing icons, particulary in gaim, and in gnome-control-center, i don't know if it's a consequence, but as my kde looks so great before this problem, now it's kindda ugly :cry:

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I join my emerge info if it can help ...

link

esquimo_2ooo · n00b Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 6

sure, unfortunately that was the first thing i tried, but without success

but i jot an eye again on the configuration file, and i've found this:

aPoX · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 10

I just developed this problem today too..

It's definately not a theme problem. I've aleady tried to unmerge gdm/gdm-themes and removing the gdm conf file then reemerging it.. doesn't work. I've also noticed that KDM and XDM do not send me to the window manager that I specify, they simply send me to Xsession. Help@#%@#

-aPoX

squareHat · Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 11:47 pm Post subject:

I am now having the same problem.

I upgraded to GNOME 2.4, and when I log-in I get

"The theme for the graphical greeter is corrupt. It does not contain
> definition for the username/password entry element"

I am not using any themes, I emerge -u gdm to see if that fixed but it didn't

Any ideas?

esquimo_2ooo · n00b Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 6

so
by the time i finally managed to resolve my problem.
i don't remember exactly what i did, but i think it was a gtk+ problem.
and i think too that at that moment i found the solution on a thread about gtk+

hope you'll do it

best regards.
eskimo

Juice69 · n00b Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 46

I had exactly the same problem as you guys, I solved it with:

afcowie · Posted: Sun May 02, 2004 5:03 am Post subject:

I just hit this problem on a new install. This thread is almost a year old, so I can't imagine it is a problem having anything to do with a bug that briefly existed but that now has been fixed.

I certainly can't imagine how emerging wxGTK could help, though any olive branch is welcome at this point.

xiangzi · Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 9:20 pm Post subject:

Same problem here on a new install. Finally managed to fix it with

emerge librsvg

Problem was /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders was looking for libpixbufloader_png.so in /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0, but a gtk+ update had apparently moved this to /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0. Seems like one of the emerge updates somewhere ought to have caught this and rebuilt librsvg?

--Jonathan

Paidhi · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 5:26 pm Post subject:

Thanks for this tip. Here "libgnomeui" always failed to emerge.
This was driving me crazy. A new emerge of librsvg solved the problem.

-Markus-
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