System freeze when logging out

[Lorin Pino]

Tod Merley wrote:

>On 8/17/06, Lorin Pino <ljpino at grm.net> wrote:
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>>Sometimes (once every two or three days) when logging out lorin (does
>>not happen when logging out from my wife's), the greeter will only come
>>up part way and stop.  There will be a white screen with the outline of
>>where things should be on the screen.  I am running 5.10, with the
>>Debian Blue List greeter.  The only thing I can see in logs is:
>>localhost gdmgreeter[8703] Theme broken: must have pam-message label!
>>
>>Any idea why this is an intermittent problem, and how to fix it?
>>Everything works fine after a reboot, so it is only an annoyance.  Thanks
>>~Lorin
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>Hi Lorin!
>
>This is a bit out of my familiar territory.  I have never used a
>greeter that I know of (I will probably be educated - hope so).
>
>This site looks promising for background:
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>http://www.5z.com/jirka/gdm-documentation/x1168.html
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>To me "Theme Broken:" and then "Must have pam-message label" would
>indicate that one of your themes (or it's user application??) is not
>compliant with the theme rules established.
>
>To fix:   Update??  Use a different Theme??  Find out where the
>current Theme breaks and add the proper labeling process??
>
>All I can do is guess here.  I hope others can respond better for you.
>
>Good Hunting!
>
>Tod
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As far as I know, I am up on all my updates.  I will try a different 
theme, and see if the greeter works better for the next week or so.
~Lorin