[CentOS] GDM problem

Jack Bailey jack at internetguy.net
Mon Nov 21 10:54:30 UTC 2005


Sudev Barar wrote:

>>Went to login to the console this morning and got few errors about bad
>>PNG files.  Logged out, now I can't log back in.  The lone dialog box
>>has the following:
>>
>>There was an error loading the theme Default
>>Couldn't recognize the image file format for file
>>'/usr/share/gdm/themes/Default/background.png'
>>
>>I click OK, nothing happens.
>>    
>>
>
>If you can boot of any live cd you can then edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf
>Go the line which has the above path and comment it out. Likely this would work.
>  
>

/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf?  I looked at that for awhile, and for grins I 
changed:

GraphicalTheme=Default

to:

GraphicalTheme=Bluecurve

It's now complaining about icon-language.png instead of background.png.




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