Major BUM bug ??

[fmccormick at videotron.ca]

>I have been using dapper without any trouble all these days. I tried to
>use bum, disabling postfix, enabling freepops, etc.
>But, I am not sure whether this has created the problem, ubuntu does not
>login automatically now. I do not want to reinstall the system again.
>When I try to launch 'gdmsetup', I get the following message.
 
> Failed to connect to socket, sleep 1 second and retry
>  Trying failed command again.  Try 2 of 5.

///snip///

>Human login screen also does not get displayed. Some blue screen with
>strange (of course, English) lettered screen is displayed.
I> tried to edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf adding my name to automatic login and
>setting automatic login to true. But, no use.


  This is bizarre because EXACTLY the same thing happened to my machine when I used BUM to
change some services. At the time I posted to this list, suggesting BUM might be removed from
the repositories.  But received no replies or comments

I am afraid your machine is BORKED.




---Frank McCormick---
------Montreal--------