gdm failure?

[Jeffrey F. Bloss]

John Dangler wrote:

Just a thought, but it might be necessary to make changes while not
logged in. Use CTRL+ALT+F1 at the login screen to get to a terminal
login, and CTRL+ALT+F7 to get back. Or alternately you could try
'killall gnome-screensaver' in a terminal window after you logged in so
it's not trying to reset things as you're trying to change them.


> I did a synaptic upgrade today.  All of a sudden, I'm logged out of
> gnome and taken back to the gdm login.  I look in preferences,
> thinking that a session time out has somehow been set.  I'm looking
> in the screensavers, and I notice its random.  I start looking at the
> individual screensavers starting from the bottom of the installed
> screensavers list.  I come to an entry (I don't which one it is), and
> I am logged out again.
> 
> Now, since that entry was the last entry I selected, every time I go
> into screensavers under system->preferences, I am immediately logged
> out!
> 
> Every time i'm sitting idle in gnome long enough for the screensaver
> to launch, I'm immediately logged out!!
> 
> Can someone here point me as to where this is stored so I can change
> it and find the borked screensaver ???
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 


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